What key criteria could a URA achieve? 1. 1. Place C Chor oreogr - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

What key criteria could a URA achieve?

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• 1. Place C

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• graphy - Great: streets, plazas, visual links

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• 2. Ped

edest estrian S Sca cale - Width/height ratio of streets & buildings 3.

• 3. Gen

ener erative ve C Cod

• de - Enable ‘many hands to shape community.’

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Sustai ainab able Trad adition

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• Mary and John Czarnecki
• Michael Mehaffy
• Laurence Qamar
• Duncan McRoberts
• Mathew Roman

Place Choreography

• A sequence of visually linked civic spaces: streets, plazas, and parks
• Civic buildings associated with significant civic places
• Terminated and deflected views pointed at key architectural features

Place Choreography

• A sequence of visually linked civic spaces: streets, plazas, and parks
• Civic buildings associated with significant civic places
• Terminated and deflected views pointed at key architectural features

Place Choreography

• A sequence of visually linked civic spaces: streets, plazas, and parks
• Civic buildings associated with significant civic places
• Terminated and deflected views pointed at key architectural features

Human Scale

• Outdoor Rooms: Width/Height ratio of streets and plazas
• Fine grain lots and facades create vitality (economic and cultural)

Generative Code

• Distill the DNA, or the patterns of the best of the NW Neighborhood
• Enable many many individual players to contribute by forming

smaller grain of parcels

• Establish height by Transition Zones (not just FAR with bonuses)