Friday, December 29, 2006

questions to be posed

What role does topography play in organizing urban fabric?

How do infrastructural components organize the surrounding urban fabric?

How do infrastructural components relate to each other?

What aspects of the built environment facilitate social activation?

What aspects of the built environment coordinate typical, mundane uses?

How can inhabitants use the same urban elements for different purposes?

How does the public-private gradient across an urban field affect urban character?

What are systemic infrastructural components beyond the patch and corridor and how do they perform?

In terms of local urban fabric, what is the effective difference between an initial infrastructural piece and an imposed infrastructural piece?