I thought it might be helpful to publish a complete list of my blog essays to date as one complete document for ease of reference. The essays in italics were written after publication of the collection in “Symbiotic Architecture”. The italicized titles are only available on my blog and on Linked-In. Some, but not all, of the earlier titles are available on Linked-In.
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Walter M. Hosack |
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Year/Mo/Order |
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10.9.1 |
Replacing Density |
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10.9.2 |
The City is a Farm |
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10.10.1 |
Examining Architecture Part 1 |
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10.10.2 |
The Disorganized Zoning Ordinance |
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10.10.3 |
The Limits of Shelter Capacity |
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10.11.1 |
The Variance Contradiction |
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10.12.1 |
Land Use Plans & Ponzi Schemes |
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11.1.1 |
Hidden Implications of Design Decisions |
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11.1.1 |
Strategy is Missing from Economic Development |
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11.2.1 |
A Tool for Containing Sprawl |
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11.4.1 |
Design Specifications & Shelter Intensity |
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11.4.2 |
Parking Lot Design Implications |
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11.5.1 |
Dwelling Unit Design Implications |
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11.6.1 |
Measuring Design Excellence - Sullivan & Wright |
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11.7.1 |
The Symbiotic City |
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11.8.1 |
Symbiotic Architecture |
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11.9.1 |
City Design for Economic Stability |
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11.10.1 |
Citizen Participation is not Leadership |
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11.10.2 |
City Design with Space |
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11.10.3 |
Design for Survival |
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11.10.4 |
Education |
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11.10.5 |
Education Preamble |
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11.10.6 |
Pitch and Catch |
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11.10.7 |
Predict Shelter Options within Limited Built Domain |
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11.10.8 |
Protecting the Planet |
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11.10.9 |
Talent and Leadership |
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11.11.1 |
A New Language for Architecture & City Design |
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11.11.2 |
Strategic & Tactical Architecture |
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11.12.1 |
Improving Arguments for Architecture & City Design |
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11.12.2 |
A Tool for Containing Sprawl |
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11.12.3 |
An Overlooked Threat to the Family of Man |
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11.12.4 |
Conceptual Design & Architectural Scope |
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11.12.5 |
Land is a Critical Design Element |
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11.12.6 |
The Public Benefit of Architecture |
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12.1.1 |
City Design Synopsis |
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12.1.2 |
City Design-Urban Design-Architecture |
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12.1.3 |
Context, Capacity & Intensity |
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12.1.4 |
Examining Architecture Part 2 |
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12.1.5 |
Form Follows Invention |
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12.1.6 |
Logic & Knowledge in Design |
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12.1.7 |
Parking Variances - A Glimpse into the Future |
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12.1.8 |
Population and Intensity |
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12.1.9 |
Questions About City Planning & Architecture |
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12.1.10 |
Recalling Michelangelo |
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12.1.11 |
Shelter, Survival and Design |
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12.1.12 |
Sustainability |
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12.1.13 |
Vitruvius Revisited |
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12.2.1 |
A Common Imperative |
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12.2.2 |
Intensity is Measurement for Survival |
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12.2.3 |
The Problem w City Planning |
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12.2.4 |
What is Architecture? |
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12.3.1 |
Introduction to Intensity |
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12.3.2 |
Recalling Linnaeus |
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12.3.3 |
The Symbiotic Goal |
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12.4.1 |
John Muir & Architecture |
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12.4.2 |
Response to the Problems with City Planning |
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12.4.3 |
Taking the Pulse of Architecture |
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12.5.1 |
First Prority of Architecture |
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12.6.1 |
Architectural Education Dialogue Part 1 |
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12.6.2 |
Architectural Education Dialogue Part 2 |
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12.6.3 |
Architectural Education Dialogue Part 3 |
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12.6.4 |
Core Issues Parts 1-2 Szymanik Inquiry |
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12.6.5 |
Five Categories of Architecture |
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12.6.6 |
Harnessing Architectural Curriculum Pt 1-2-3 |
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12.6.7 |
The Other Architectural Puzzle CG1B |
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12.7.1 |
Criticism, Questions & Ideas |
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12.7.2 |
Relevance |
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12.7.3 |
Replacing the Floor Area Ratio |
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12.7.4 |
Seriously |
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12.7.5 |
The Significance of Gross Building Area |
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12.8.1 |
Searching for Answers |
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12.8.2 |
Shelter, Space & Intensity |
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12.9.1 |
Plan with Architectural Intensity |
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12.10.1 |
The Influence of Design Decisions |
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12.10.2 |
Quantifying Intuition |
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12.11 |
The Built Domain |
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13.1.1 |
Problem Solvers |
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13.1.2 |
The Many Faces of Architecture |
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13.3.1 |
Free Enterprise & Architecture |
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13.4.1 |
Symbiotic Knowledge |
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13.5.1 |
Sound Bytes from Architecture |
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13.6.1 |
Commentary - Part 1 |
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13.6.2 |
Leadership & Design |
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13.9.1 |
The Design Decisions That Matter |
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13.9.2 |
The Greatest Invention |
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13.10.1 |
Repositioning |
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13.11.1 |
Fundamental Questions |
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14.1.1 |
Sustainability & First Ring Suburbs |
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14.1.2 |
To the Philippines & Malaysia |
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14.1.3 |
Traffic Lights |
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14.2.1 |
Scoundrels in Law |
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14.4.1 |
Tacit Knowledge |
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14.5.1 |
Reply to Tacit Knowledge Comment |
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14.11.1 |
A Plan Review |
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15.1.1 |
Lesson from the Duomo |
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15.1.2 |
Reconsidering Architecture |
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15.1.3 |
Two Questions with Follow-up |
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15.2.1 |
A Fork in the Road |
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15.2.2 |
Architectural Practice and Profession |
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15.2.3 |
Comments Worth Pondering |
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15.2.4 |
Survival |
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15.3.1 |
Design Leadership |
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15.3.2 |
Two Question Follow-up |
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16.7.1 |
Advertise The Science of City Design |
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16.7.2 |
Excerpts from The Science of City Design |
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16.7.3 |
The Science of City Design |
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16.8.1 |
City Planning & Design Basics |
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16.8.2 |
Repeating Success |
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16.9.1 |
Pop-up Urban Projects |
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16.9.2 |
Shaping the Future With Opinion |
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16.9.3 |
Urban Renewal |
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16.10.1 |
Removing the Blindfold from Economic Development |
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16.10.2 |
The Human Scale |
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16.11.1 |
Land Use & Urban Form |
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16.11.2 |
Power, Policy & Planning |
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16.12.1 |
Architecture, Agriculture & Planning |
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16.12.2 |
Graduating from The Floor Area Ratio |
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17.1.1 |
Restoring the Health of Cities |
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17.2.1 |
Arguing for a Science of City Design |
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17.2.2 |
Strategic Architecture |
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17.2.3 |
Surface Parking Limits on Shelter Capacity |
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17.2.4 |
The Concept |
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17.2.5 |
Updating a Comprehensive Plan |
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17.3.1 |
Adapting Our Cities to Reality |
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17.3.2 |
Improving the Influence City Planning & Design |
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17.4.1 |
Addendum to What is Architecture |
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17.4.2 |
Townhouse & Apartmentt Density Exposed |
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17.5.1 |
A Cautionary Comment |
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17.6.1 |
A Debate Over Architectral Beauty & Taste |
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17.7.1 |
Grenfell Tower |
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17.7.2 |
Replacing Density - Updated |
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17.7.3 |
Zoning Conflict & Opportunity |
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17.8.1 |
Competing to Consume |
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17.8.2 |
Core Area Restrictions on Shelter Capacity |
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17.8.3 |
The Future of Cities |
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17.8.4 |
Understanding a Building Footprint |
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17.9.1 |
Leading Shelter Capacity, Intensity and Context Results |
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17.9.2 |
The Future of Shelter |
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17.10.1 |
Comparing Shelter Des Decisions 11.4rev |
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17.10.2 |
G1.R1 Single-family Detached Home Dilemma |
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17.12.1 |
Reply to Architectural Criticism |
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18.1.1 |
An Expanded Role for Architecture |
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18.1.2 |
Architectural Capacity & Shelter Intensity within a Limited
Built Domain |
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18.2.1 |
The Least a Smart City Should Know |
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18.3.1 |
Elected & Appointed City Planning & Design Decisions |
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18.3.2 |
Facing Reality on a Finite Planet |
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18.3.3 |
Open Space Metric |
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18.6.1 |
Learning to Lead the Formation of Cities |
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18.7.1 |
Visualizing the City |
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19.1.1 |
Correlating Economic & Real Estate Development |
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19.3.1 |
A Question from Kabul |
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19.3.2 |
Back Cover |
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19.4.1 |
Planning Our Presence |
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19.4.2 |
Response to Bill Gates re Land Consumption |
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19.5.1 |
Shelter Design Basics |
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19.6.1 |
A Collision of Architectural Opinion |
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19.6.2 |
Shelter Sprawl |
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19.8.1 |
Unstable Land Use Allocation |
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19.9.1 |
Larry Discussion |
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19.10.1 |
Benefit of Land Use-Urban Form Correlation |
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20.3.1 |
A Farmer Knows More |
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20.4.1 |
Density and Covid-19 |
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20.4.2 |
Planning with Economic Development Homework |
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20.8.1 |
Zoning Design Specifications |
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20.10.1 |
Contributing Knowledge |
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20.12.1 |
Measuring the Intensity of Place |
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21.2.1 |
Design Decisions that Determine Apartment Density |
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21.3.1 |
Design Decisions that Determine Single-Family Detached Housing
Density |
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21.3.2 |
Design Decisions that Determine Townhouse Density |
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21.4.1 |
Design Decisions that Determine Single-Family Subdivision
Density |
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21.7.1 |
Land Use & Development Capacity Correlation |
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21.8.1 |
Shelter, Sprawl, and Survival |
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21.10.1 |
The Equations of Urban Design |
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21.12.1 |
Not Published - Architecture - Fine Art |
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22.2.1 |
Concerning Our Presence on the Planet |
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22.3.1 |
The Consequences of City Design Decisions |
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22.7.1 |
Urban Design |
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22.8.1 |
A Scientific Approach to Zoning Plan Review |
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22.9.1 |
Shelter Capacity |
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22.12.1 |
The Land We Take for Granted |
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22.12.2 |
Confronting Sprawl with an Adequate Language |
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23.1.1 |
Interpreting the Planet's Law of Limits |
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23.1.2 |
Zoning Plan Review |
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23.2.1 |
Annexation |
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23.2.2 |
The Public Policy - City Design Disconnect |
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23.2.3 |
The Implications of Shelter Capacity Design Decisions |
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23.4.1 |
The Decisions Needed |
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23.4.2 |
The Pattern of a Master Plan |
