Thursday, March 4, 2010

PLANNING - Marci Webster Mannison - Sustainable retrofit of an inner urban Brisbane neighbourhood

Dr Marci Webster-Mannison
Senior Lecturer, Director, Centre for Sustainable Design
BDesSt Qld., BArch Canberra, PhD Qld.
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2 comments:

  1. Sustainable Communities DialogueMarch 24, 2010 at 7:00 PM

    Tell me more about your work

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  2. AnonymousApril 5, 2010 at 3:59 PM

    Marci's description of the mapping studies of Western Creek reminded me a little of premaculture planning methods used by Max Lindegger at eco-villages including Crystal Waters, Kookaburra Park (Gin Gin) and elsewhere. He used a series of mapping overlays of various parameters (eg soil type, ground slope, orientation and so on) to analyse prospective sites for self-sufficient community developments. Marci's work takes this framework to an existing urban context. As a method for analysis for potential sustainable community development, it would be a very useful alternate planning model to contrast with town planners seemingly "obvious" town planning methods for the formulation of conventional planning maps.

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