About Why Does It Look Like This Here?
exploring Our Built, Natural, & Social Environments
Why Does It Look Like This Here? explores architecture, landscapes and landscape design, natural environments and urban design, walkable spaces and transportation systems, considering how our built, natural and social environments evolved and relate to each other.
the natural environment
Let's explore how we relate to the natural environment: what spaces do we preserve, what places do we build on, and how do we use natural resources? How do those decisions get made?
the social environment
Societies have a wonderful variety of approaches to the built and natural world. Let's look at some of the social and cultural factors that influence the design and management of spaces, and how communities design places that reflect, even uplift, their values. Let's see how societies depict and celebrate the environment through the arts, and how innovations in science and technology are influencing everything from architecture to conservation.