No Business as Usual in an Autonomous Vehicle Future
My recent editorial on Planetizen discusses the built environment implications of autonomous vehicles.
Tag: design
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Good summary of Dutch road design to promote bicycle and pedestrian safety. bikepedaction (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
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Noticed some great #roundabout case studies this morning @ITS_UCDavis #transportation #planning #design
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Shot of very cool Japanese / Bay Area Arts & Crafts / midcentury modern buildings from my research meetings with the City of Concord yesterday. Designed in 1962 by Ernest Kump & Associates. #design #midcentury
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Very interestingly designed research platform – like a Louisville Slugger! (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
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Skin installation on new UC housing going up. My office did planning entitlements and I wrote design guidelines.
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Working on some publications using graphics and data from my dissertation (2011) focused walkability and housing in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Higher Ed Moving Online and the Campus Environs?
Higher Ed Moving Online and the Campus Environs?
Reports about this Stanford artificial intelligence course getting 160K enrollees may offer an insight into the future of higher education – especially if universities can begin charging for this enrollment to bring in extra revenue, without paying for the physical space these additional students might occupy on a campus. This, however, brings up interesting questions about the role of the campus and the importance of the classroom in the pedagogical experience. What is the role of the classroom in the teaching profession and what are the intangible benefits? What shape should built space on the college campuses take? In 20 years will campus simply be focused residential / social communities that can, in the words of former UC Berkeley, Chancellor Clark Kerr, “provide sex for the students, sports for the alumni, and parking for the faculty.”? If the Stanford course is any indication, it is unfortunate that faculty will likely not need that parking because they can teach from home in their pajamas.
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My task today: outline the best potential design options to reuse this mid-century building (or not).
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An example of the donor-driven design of the built environment in a public gathering space on the UC Berkeley campus. Does it degrade the purity or integrity of the design? You be the judge.