Everyone,

Please follow click on the photo below for the link to my photos from today’s walk:

Check out this intriguing event for students like yourselves sponsored by the Architecture  League: http://archleague.org/2013/10/annual-student-program-5/

Please see this extensive report on the Brooklyn Tech Triangle and Downtown Brooklyn.

Note the key role that Jay Street plays in this plan: Brooklyn Tech Triangle Study

See this bulletin for efforts by CUNY to improve sustainability across it’s campuses. Our masterplan can play a role in helping Citytech improve its sustainable infrastructure.

CUNY Sustainability Bulletin

Everyone,

Below is a list of Citytech email addresses from Blackboard of everyone in the course:

Here are the agreed assignments for this project. See the Assignment Folder in Openlab for more details on the assignment: Project 1.2 

Drawings: 

Base Plan Dwg: Alma and Aleyda

Base Massing Model: Evgenia, Mac, and Jennifer

Base Topo Model w/ Landscape: Camilla

Research:

Zoning: Timur and Mohammed

Historical Maps: Agata

Traffic, Transportation, Parking: Tony and Evgueni

Land Use, Population: Corey

Please note that Thursday’s class (Sept 19) will be a discussion on Zoning. Timur and Mohammed should provide the zoning maps covering the entirety of our study area (Dumbo to the North, Cadman Plaza/Borough Hall to the West, Livingston to the South, and Flatbush Ave to the East) for this discussion. For reference, in the Readings folder on Openlab is a guide for architects to develop their zoning diagrams for review by the DOB.

I have set up a Dropbox folder and have invited all you to join. For many of you, I needed to use your Citytech email for the invite. Please check your Citytech email account to join the dropbox folder.

Prof. Montgomery

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/15/sunday-review/is-suburban-sprawl-on-its-way-back.html?ref=opinion

Urban Analysis is a learned art.

It starts with simple overlays that simplify the organism of streets, open spaces, buildings, infrastructure that make up of our complex city.

Each analysis could simply diagram one element within our neighborhoods:

• open space
• road heirarchy
• building types and uses

I am uploading examples of urban analysis for your review as you complete this first assignment for Monday next week. Click the image below for the link:

Cooper Robertson is a firm with many years of urban design and place making experience.

Check out their website: http://www.cooperrobertson.com/index.html

Look particularly at their Cities projects, including the Baltimore, Boston, Battery Park City, and Hudson Yards projects.

Urban Design is an opportunity to consider the built environment in broad and comprehensive terms.

How shall we build/modify our cities for future generations?

What are the principals that guide us in conceiving our vision for our cities?

These are themes we will be exploring this semester.