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Project Summary:
Optimization and simulation framework to analyze transit-oriented designs
Address 2 questions:
1. How can we evaluate the effectiveness of an urban complex?
- Demand / Sustainment / Measurement framework:
- Investigates demand distribution patterns influenced by urban planning topology
- Quantifies effects of transportation infrastructure topology and mode of operation
- Determines system's ability to satisfy resident / industrial needs
2. What transit paradigms succeed at making the world “smaller”?
Notes:
What do arcologies have to do with TOD?
Futurism – the apogee of TOD
Approach to design and SysArch: start with ideal and scale back to something realistic and pragmatic (with additional baggage that entails). Good systems architecture will accomodate.
Few serious visioneering works on arcology design, compared to e.g. space colonization
1. What does a city do? Must define measures
2. After measures are defined, we can optimize! Let's take a brief tour of transit paradigms of the past century in 4 slides