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July 9, 2012
Carl Steinitz Discusses Six Fundamental Questions of GeoDesign Framework

Creating a good design takes organization. That's why Harvard University professor Carl Steinitz developed a robust conceptual framework or workflow for regional land-use design projects.
Steinitz spent more than 30 years teaching these design methods and strategies to his students at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. A much wider audience now has access to his methodology with the publication of his new book, A Framework for Geodesign: Changing Geography by Design. Nine case studies are included in the book, each focusing on a different design method. I sat down with Steinitz at the recent GeoDesign Summit to discuss the six fundamental questions required for working through GeoDesign Framework. 

Creating a good design takes organization. That's why Harvard University professor Carl Steinitz developed a robust conceptual framework or workflow for regional land-use design projects.
Steinitz spent more than 30 years teaching these design methods and strategies to his students at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. A much wider audience now has access to his methodology with the publication of his new book, A Framework for Geodesign: Changing Geography by Design. Nine case studies are included in the book, each focusing on a different design method.

April 12, 2012
DistrictBuilder Software Offers Public Participation Power Shift in Redistricting Process

When you approach the polls this November to choose the members of Congress you’d like to see elected or re-elected, you will likely have put in some time prior to the election studying up on how your candidates compare to your views. It’s worth noting that there are now websites created just for that reason, such as VoteSmart.org’s “VoteEasy” platform. But it may not have crossed your mind that elected representatives and their political allies in the state legislatures will have pre-selected their voters by creating partisan electoral districts through the manipulation of maps.

January 3, 2012
Designing Geography Part III: The GeoDesign Framework

Carl Steinitz, professor of landscape architecture at Harvard University, first described how the GeoDesign Framework worked by posing it as a series of six questions relevant to landscape change.  The first three questions describe the world as it is and assess its condition (the assessment process). The last three questions describe the world as it could be, evaluating proposed design alternatives and their impacts (the intervention process).

Carl Steinitz, professor of landscape architecture at Harvard University, first described how the GeoDesign Framework worked by posing it as a series of six questions relevant to landscape change.  The first three questions describe the world as it is and assess its condition (the assessment process). The last three questions describe the world as it could be, evaluating proposed design alternatives and their impacts (the intervention process).

January 3, 2012
Designing Geography Part III: The GeoDesign Framework

Carl Steinitz, professor of landscape architecture at Harvard University, first described how the GeoDesign Framework worked by posing it as a series of six questions relevant to landscape change.  The first three questions describe the world as it is and assess its condition (the assessment process). The last three questions describe the world as it could be, evaluating proposed design alternatives and their impacts (the intervention process).

Carl Steinitz, professor of landscape architecture at Harvard University, first described how the GeoDesign Framework worked by posing it as a series of six questions relevant to landscape change.  The first three questions describe the world as it is and assess its condition (the assessment process). The last three questions describe the world as it could be, evaluating proposed design alternatives and their impacts (the intervention process).

December 9, 2011
Hub2 - Visual Expression of Public Opinion

December 9, 2011
Hub2 - Visual Expression of Public Opinion

December 9, 2011
Hub2 - Visual Expression of Public Opinion