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Sustainable programs require a comprehensive and integrated understanding of a community’s unique human-environmental resources. By definition, sustainability identifies strategies that look at a community's on-site natural resources as integral aspects of the design (Vieria, 1993). It integrates natural systems with human patterns and celebrates continuity, uniqueness and placemaking (Early, 1993).
The Pullman proposal is based upon a working definition of sustainability and modeling techniques which provides a method to carefully balance the community’s on-site ecological interchanges between human and environmental systems. Within the context of this ecological model, various scales of developments were studied. An integrated set of regenerative design and planning strategies are proposed for this community to place these systems in balance. Although each community's on-site resources are unique, the proposed general process and principles can be adapted to help other communities develop a comprehensive and sustainable urban regeneration program.
Pullman is located in the Palouse region of Eastern Washington, USA. Its population is 25,000. The regional climate has distinct seasons with cold, wet winters and warm, dry summers. The city’s economy services the region’s agriculture industries and supports a major state university.
The proposal was awarded one of the three gold medals given internationally at the recent UN City Summit - The Habitat II conference in Istanbul, Turkey (IAA, 1996).
This web site explores the following interactive design-planning issues and information:
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This web site was developed with the authors and Michael Mahaffy, Computer Systems Professional, School of Architecture, Washington State University |
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updated 11/24/99