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
Assignment
4: Designing a Sustainable Region for 4 Million.
Issued:
November 5.
Due on
last day of class, Thursday November 29.
Overview:
This project will give you a chance to
experiment as a regional designer. You will be working in small four or five
person teams, and in a team of your whole tutorial group, and, ultimately, in
teamwork with your entire class of over 150 students. Your challenge is to add
population and jobs to the region, taking it from a region of two million to a
region of four million, and in a way that makes the region much more
sustainable than it is now.
Map of region showing who does what
labeled by tutorial section. It shows up on the downloadable Word file.
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To make it easy for you we require you to use
the seven rules of this course and apply them. Your project will be evaluated
based on how well you do this. Your challenge will be to apply the seven rules in
one 5 km by 5 km portion of the region.
Process
The region has been divided into squares.
Your tutorial group will have the squares indicated below. The numbers indicate which tutorial group is
assigned which squares
As you can see, each tutorial group is
responsible for four squares, or "tiles", each tile is 5km by 5km. That means that each square
contains 25 square km. Since the
sheets you will be issued are one meter square, that means that one meter
equals 5km or 5,000 meters - or, in design and engineering terms, the map is 5,000 scale.
Population
and jobs
We provide you with the total number of new
jobs and residential units required for each square below. As you can see some
tiles have more capacity to absorb jobs and housing (based on a complex
analysis that we did in 2006 which I have radically simplified here). This doesn't
make these tiles that much harder or easier to figure out. It just might take
longer to draw more buildings on the tiles demanding more jobs and housing than
others.
Tutorial
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Square
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New Dwelling Units
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New Jobs
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10
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G6
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40,000
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60,000
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Surrey Delta
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G7
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4,000
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5,000
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H7
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1,100
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2,100
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I7
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4,000
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6,000
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5
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H5
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50,000
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70,000
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Surrey Langley
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H6
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35,000
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45,000
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I5
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2,000
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3,000
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I6
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4,500
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6,000
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7
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D5
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2,000
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2,000
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Fraser edge
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E5
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2,200
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2,000
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F5
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45,000
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45,000
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G5
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57,000
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40,000
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2
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B5
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4,800
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6.000
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Richmond
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C5
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13,000
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15,000
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B6
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4,300
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6,500
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C6
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9,000
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12,000
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8
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J4
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6,500
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5,000
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Golden Ears
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K4
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6,500
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7,500
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J5
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8,500
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7,500
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K5
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1,900
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2,000
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3
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H3
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14,000
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16,000
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Coquitlam East
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I3
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3,000
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5,000
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H4
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8,500
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9,500
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I4
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3,900
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5,500
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9
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F3
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34,000
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40,000
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Coquitlam West
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G3
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6,500
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7,000
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F4
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50,000
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40,000
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G4
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6,000
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7,000
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6
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D3
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60,000
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50,000
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Burnaby
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E3
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60,000
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50,000
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D4
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62,000
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45,000
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E4
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53,000
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27,000
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1
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B3
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45,000
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13,000
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Vancouver
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C3
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50,000
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20,000
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B4
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40,000
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18,000
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C4
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63,000
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26,000
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11
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J6
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33,286
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22,639
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Langley
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J7
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51,076
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25,000
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K6
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4,035
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1,800
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K7
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10,589
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5,200
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Process
Using your experience from assignment
three, work as a team to add residential units and job sites to your assigned
urban tile. Do this project EXACTLY like project three, only this
time as a group and this time on a bigger area.
Step
one, locate residential units.
From experience i know that the most
difficult part of the task is to locate the housing units. So start with this. Remember
that we have taught you how the corridors have the most capacity to absorb new
units, but that the "fabric" can also absorb a lot without the need
to tear buildings down (or not many anyway).
Step
two, locate jobs.
This may seem like the hard part of the assignment,
but it's not. Jobs only take up 20 sq meters per job. So one job only takes
about 20 percent as much space as one housing unit. Remember that less than 20
percent of jobs are "stinky smelly noisy" jobs requiring separation
from other land uses. So the other 80 percent can be located within mixed use
blocks and mixed use buildings. The simplest way to do this is to give over the
entire first floor of mixed use buildings located along transit corridors for
retail, and the second floors (or higher floors potentially) of these same
buildings for office use. If you go back and look at the statistics I gave you in
my lecture on jobs you can see that about 20 percent of jobs, and thus space,
is in retail, 40 percent is in education
(do schools need to be separated? maybe yes maybe no), health care
(hospitals? clinics? dentists? your GP?) and other services, 20 percent is government
(city, regional, police, fire, etc). I
am making these numbers very rough and chunky to make it easy on you. So only
20 percent of your job space has to be segregated in jobs only areas. In some
areas you will have trouble finding this much land for jobs only areas. In
others you will have too much. If you
are lucky enough to have an existing industrial area in your square you can
probably absorb more jobs in those areas by proposing to add floors to existing
buildings or use the sites more intensively than they are now (we did this in
our North Vancouver 100 year plan: http://www.cnv.org/server.aspx?c=3&i=541
)
Step
three
Elect one person from your team to fill out
the form on the next page.
List Team members:
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QUESTION
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ANSWER
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1. What strategy did you use to locate most dwelling
units. Address affordability and
demographics. (200 words.)
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2. What strategy did you use to locate most jobs.
Address degree of mixing/separation of jobs. (200 words)
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3. How did you protect and extend natural systems. (100
words)
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4. Where are the major transit ways you depend on
for mobility (100 words)
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5. Were you able to create alternative
transportation networks. Where? (100 words)
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Step
four:
The four students who filled out the form
above will elect one of their members to give a five minute presentation in
front of all four squares to quickly describe the housing, jobs, transit, and
environmental strategy used in your whole tutorial's section/city (i.e. your
tutorials four squares) on November 29 during class time. That person will also
be responsible for arriving at the lecture hall no later than 4:30 to assist in hanging the four tiles on the
wall.
The
Map
Draw directly on the map in the same way
you did on assignment three, using the same symbols, same method of calculating
density, same colors to indicate land uses. Be careful not to mess up the map,
as we give you one free but if you mess it up you have to pay over ten dollars
on your own to get a new one. If you need a new one that you want to have
printed commercially on your own they can be downloaded at: http://www.sxd.sala.ubc.ca/9_resources/gvrd_mosaic/gvrd_mosaic.htm
Grading
Criteria.
1.
Extent to which the team
applies lessons learned in first part of class: 10%
2.
Demonstrates understanding of
how cities can and can't change: 10%
3.
Can evaluate and choose best strategies to
enhance sustainability: 10%
4.
Demonstrates a basic
understanding of "scale" (how the size of things in plans relates to
the size of things in the real world)
10%
5.
Team demonstrates that they
have met the program requirements for jobs and housing units. 20%
6.
Team presents a clear and cogent
argument (through design and text) about how their might grow over time towards
increased sustainability . 20%
7.
Map is graphically clear
(graphic quality of map/plan/proposal). 20%
