OVERVIEW

This course explores the power of urban design to structure an equitable, healthy, sustainable and gratifying context for the social lives of its users. The objectives of the course are to design for people and their real needs; to use form and structure to make “places;” to understand the various schools of urban design thought and to experiment with their adaptation to local circumstances; to provide a particular site with evocative visions for a complex and dynamic urbanism; and to enhance the economic, social, and ecological sustainability of urban form, and of a selected site in particular.

The study area for the studio will be the town of Squamish on the Sea to Sky Highway. The intent of the studio will be to provide ideas and visions for the community. Students in the combined studio involving planning and landscape architecture students will conduct the visioning exercise, working with citizens, elected officials and municipal staff for the project involving 7 weeks from early September to mid-October.