Course Content

Purpose | Problem Example

Neighborhoods Population, infrastructure, recreation, architecture, economics People places Public-private, art, performance, usability, renewal, preservation Bridges-Roads Structural integrity, traffic, information, aesthetic qualities. Brownfields Industry, science, economics, labor, quality of life. Parks Botany, ecology, economics, art, physical wellbeing. One or more of the topic listed below will be selected as the course contents as a function of student interest. The focus on neighborhoods will consider topics including population demographics, physical and social infrastructure, art and recreation, architectural characteristics, and finalcial picture. Studies of people places, including plazzas, avenues, parks, landmarks, and important urban nodes will be conducted to understand how city residents utilize these amenities. The relationship between public and private, in terms of ownership, art, performance, usability, renewal, and preservation, will be examined. Economic, cultural, technological, artistic and scientific aspects of theis relationship will be considered. Roads and Bridges will be analyzed in terms of structural and transportation implications for the entire city. Structural integrity, traffic, information, aesthetic qualities will be considered. Brownfields, large, rivers edge properties abused and abandoned by the industrial establishments, will be studied from the stand point of industrial development, chemical and physical analysis, sustainable ecologies, economics, labor, and quality of life. Pittsburghs parks are an invaluable asset for its quality of like and ecology. Anakra has precious few parks which makes them so much more important for its development as a modern city. Botany, ecology, economics, art woeks in the parks will be considered as an ingredient in the physical wellbeing of the city and its inhabitants.

©Copyright: 1999, Carnegie Mellon University, All Rights Reserved.