In the near future, with the proliferation of emergent technologies such as ‘level five’ autonomous mobility systems and ‘smart’ streets and infrastructure, new urbanistic visions will have to contend with the persistent legacies of the 19th and 20th century suburban project, and bring them into alignment with modern demands for equity, resilience, and sustainability.
The fall 2019 joint urban design studio embraced the reality of low-density communities, and their continued proliferation throughout the world as a vital contemporary condition to work within. We asked the class to consider low-density environments not as a problem to solve, but as a condition to optimize through the integration of emergent technology with existing regional landscape systems and through visionary design thinking.
