• Welcome Page
• Getting Started
  • Syllabus Review
  • Course Structure
  • Module Overview and Objectives
  • Typical Weekly Study Time
  • Core Readings
  • Lesson Narrative
  • Collaboration
  • Assignments
  • Final Geodesign Project
  • Monitoring Course Communications
  • Getting Help
  • Take the Orientation Quiz
• Modules
  • Module 1: Thinking in Systems
    • History of Geodesign
    • Frank Lloyd Wright: "Organic Architecture"
    • Richard Neutra: Survival Through Design
    • An Example: The New Jersey Shore
    • Week 1 Assignment
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    • Warren Manning and Overlay Mapping
    • Ian McHarg and Design with Nature
    • Carl Steinitz and A Framework for Geodesign
    • Howard Fisher and SYMAP
    • Michael Goodchild and GI-Science
    • Jack Dangermond and ESRI
    • Emergence of the Term "Geodesign"
    • Defining Geodesign
    • Systems Thinking
  • Module 2: Collaboration and Context
    • Core Readings and Guiding Questions
    • Local Collaboration
    • The Role of Local Knowledge
    • Team Collaboration
    • Geographic Context and Scale
    • The Steinitz Framework for Geodesign: Six Questions, Three Iterations
    • Representation Models (Inventory)
    • Process Models (Analysis)
    • Evaluation Models (Suitability Maps)
    • Change Models (Scenario Alternatives) + Impact Models
    • Decision Models (Preferred Solution)
    • Case Study: Soma City
    • Next Lesson
    • Week 2 Assignment
    • Case Study: Geodesign for the Port of Rotterdam
  • Module 3: Steinitz Framework First Iteration
    • Framework Overview
    • Assignment - Haddon Strategies
    • Next Lesson
    • Rapid Strategies
    • Core Readings and Guiding Questions
    • Thinking Ahead: Multiple Scenarios
  • Module 4: Outlining a Method (2nd Iteration of the Geodesign Framework)
    • Same Models, New Questions
    • Second Iteration: Decision Models
    • Second Iteration: Impact Models
    • Second Iteration: Change Models
    • Second Iteration: Evaluation Models
    • Second Iteration: Process Models
    • Second Iteration: Representation Models
    • An Abstract Framework
    • An Example Problem: Staten Island
    • Geodesign is Always Unique
    • Assignment
    • Next Lesson
  • Module 5: Two Additional Frameworks: Geodesign Workflow and LUCIS
    • Geodesign Workflow
    • Land-Use Conflict Identification Strategy (LUCIS)
      • What is LUCIS?
      • Five Steps of LUCIS
      • Definitions
      • The LUCIS Model
        • Goals and Objectives
        • Data Inventory and Preparation
        • Land-use Suitability
        • Integrating Community Values
        • Potential Land-Use Conflicts
        • Future Land-Use Allocation
    • Assignment
    • Next Lesson
  • Module 6: Incorporating Feedback - Steinitz Framework Third Iteration
    • Implementing the Process
    • Diagnosing the Framework
    • Finding Leverage Points
    • Quiz 3 and Peer Review
    • Next Lesson
    • Yes, No, or Maybe
  • Module 7: Geodesign, Fitness, and the Future
    • Core Readings And Guiding Questions
    • Suitability Encourages Sustainability
    • A Case for the Dune Ecosystem
    • A Sustainable Framework
    • What is Geodesign?
      • The Geodesign Toolbox
    • Assignment
    • Geodesign and "The Right to the City"
• Collaboration
  • Core Readings And Guiding Questions
  • Analog v. Digital Technology
  • The Risk of GIS-centered Design
  • Assignment
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