UNIVERSITY
OF BRITISH COLUMBIA LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE PROGRAM
UBC
School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
Environmental
Design Program (ENDS)
ENDS 221:
DESIGN - Sustainability by Design. Making
our Cities Healthy for Humans and Other Living Things.
Winter Term 1, September to December
2012
Professor
Patrick M. Condon
Project
Issued: Sept 6
Project
due: In tutorial session week 4
Project
1. Streetcar City ; Then and now.
Overview:
This
project will give you a chance to see the city in a new way. You will be
looking at the city as it is now and as it once was, and from this examination
learn how cities evolve and how what happens now is a function of what happened
in the past. It’s a simple warm up
project and should be fun. The project is to study how the form of our city is
the result of events in the past, and how we get to and from work, or school,
every day. You will be asked to look at old pictures (stills from films) of the
city and to select locations depicted in those old stills, and re photograph
this view from exactly the same spot. We will also ask you to write your
thoughts about your investigations as described below.
Learning
objectives.
1
Demonstrate
an ability to see the city as an artifact that has grown through the
interaction of working, living, and moving.
2
Write
a clear text to describe the location and how it has changed.
3
Depict
this information in a graphically clear way with photos and maps.
4
Begin
to learn how to diagram information by adding information to maps.
5
Demonstrate
an ability to draw conclusions from what you have observed.
Process.
Choose,
in your tutorial session, one of the 24 views provided. These views are taken
from old films. The ones in black and white are from this film, shot in 1907
from the front of a moving streetcar: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzjRs3ARo0g. The ones in color are from
a more recent film, shot in 1956 just before the regional rail system was torn
up to make way for rubber tired busses, cars, and freeways. Only a small
fragment of this much longer film is on line at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKHVHG2VhZc
1
These
views are located for you, described in terms of the nearest intersection to
the view and the direction of the view. Pick the view that most interests you.
No two students in labs can do the same view.
2
The
images on the sheets can be extracted from the Word file and printed out on a
larger sheet. With that in hand go out to the city to find the exact same spot
and take a photo that is from the identical location looking the same way. If
it’s the same time of day that would help too. Try to get the frame as
identical as possible.
3
Find
the map detail from the Google maps (or the like) and “grab” it to use in your
presentation. Capture an area about .5 kilometers by .5 kilometers in the map
view.
4
Using
a simple graphics program like “paint” on the PC put labels on the map. Labels
should include a direction of view arrow, and other elements in the view that
have changed over time which you think are important. I have provided graphic
examples of what I mean on the attached page.
5
Arrange
the three images with captions on the page. You must download a Word template
for this from the blog site. The template allows you to drop the images into
the pre defined spots, and fill in the captions.
6
Write
a 500 word description of the place and the changes that occurred there. Use
the readings from the course and your own insights to suggest how this area
grew and the role that transit had, or didn't have, in its history.
Submission
requirements.
Two
page submission using templates provided. Graphics and English compostion
counts and will be part of grade.
Grading criteria
Graphic
quality 20%
English
composition 20%
Photography 20%
Quality
of insights 40%
