URBAN DIAGRAMMING AND COMMUNICATION I.

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This course establishes a framework for understanding how design is used to create sustainable urban communities. An interdisciplinary course, its focus is upon heightening student awareness of the built environment by investigative sketching and measuring, as well as by digital means. This process of documenting encompasses the human uses of objects and systems that comprise an urban community: buildings, public spaces, landscape, transportation systems, waterways, and other infrastructure. Issues of social and economic equity are introduced, as well as the roles that human interaction and participation play in successful design strategies. Prerequisites: "C" or better in UDES 1301 and UDES 1341 or ARCH 1341 , credit or concurrent enrollment in UDES 1304 . Restricted to Sustainable Urban Design-intended and SUDBS_UNIV students.