Scales of Planning

I was just thinking about scales in the city, just like in Architecture and in maps, you have scales.

Urban: Building scale. Deals with urban design and human scale.

District: Block scale. Larger areas, but still within human scale.

Municipal: District scale. Made up of blocks, this creates groups to form districts.

Regional Planning: Municipal scale. Made up of Municipalities.

End of the Year

Well, finally it's the end of the year back at studying. I'd have to say that some things required a lot of time and where worth very little. A friend keeps saying that if you spend more time on doing more than getting a five, your wasting your time.

I don't believe in that. If your passionate about planning, you want to do the best that you can do naturally. If your inclination is to only do as much as required, where would we be today? To me it sounds slack and lazy. Something that I maybe was like when I was 5.

So, work with no study, going out at night, movies are now a better place to be, until next year.

DEB200 - Introducing Sustainability -The End?

Just got an email saying that if you didn't pass this exam you fail the course. So 50 multiple choice questions, with 25% of the total course. Does that somehow sound loaded? Exams have never been my strong point, and, in real life exams do not exist. There is no time that I needed to work out something in several different areas and only to be said, yep, that'll pass. No. Things in real life require time, and thought. Time constraints are really things we put onto ourselves. Time is money, just not the time under a time frame that dictates success in 75% of your work.