Plot Logic: Character-Building Through Creative Parcelisation

Urban Design in the Real Estate Development Process

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 92-113

  Love, Tim ^a   Crawford, Christina ^b  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Development blocks; Market flexibility; Master developers; Parcel developers; Parcel maps; Parcelisation; Plot size; Urban diversity and vibrancy; Urban morphology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886139363     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444341188.ch5     Document Type: Chapter

References (2)

1. In 2007, the Architecture Foundation of British Columbia and Royal Architectural Institute of Canada co-sponsored an open architectural ideas competition entitled 'poto-type' (podium/tower typology). The purpose of the competition was to question the ubiquitous podium/tower solution in downtown Vancouver, given that '... proliferation of this architectural mono-type could potentially create social and economic disparateness while weakening neighborhood identities'. The competition brief and the winning schemes can be found at www.poto.ca.
2. Utile, the architecture firm and think tank where the authors practise, has been focused on this agenda for the past five years. Design research at the firm, and in housing studios at the Northeastern University School of Architecture in Boston, has shown that high quality units can be designed within zero-lot-line wood-frame row house and courtyard buildings.