Introduction to the Special Issue: The Transect

Abstract

This document talks about the process of an academic project of urban, architectural and constructive nature raised in the city of Bogotá, specifically on the edge of the Fucha river, which encompasses the Happiness neighborhood. This is a sector affected by problems of loss of the main ecological structure, disarticulation with the city and lack of appropriation of public space.The project seeks to propose alternative solutions from an academic context that formulates from the resolution of problems and a clear solution to these from an architectural urban intervention.Through a series of methodological strategies such as research, direct visit to the site, analysis of referents who faced similar problems and analyzes by different layers of the sector; It is intended to show the development process of the architectural project, responding to a main objective of recovering spaces with obvious environmental deterioration, which allow the area to be linked to the city and contribute to positive results in the search to improve urban and physical conditions of the sector; generating security and citizen inclusion with its immediate context, appropriate to this space and

Towards topographically sensitive urbanism: re-envisioning earthwork terracing in suburban development

“…Where it does exist, topography is often positioned in urban design schemes as a non-urban 'other' that takes the form of a park or natural landmark. The seminal Rural-Urban Transect diagram by Andrés Duany (2002) illustrates this point. The schematic section taken from the core of a city to the periphery is entirely flat, with topography conveniently relegated to the periphery of the built zones and identified as regional recreational and nature reserves ( Figure 7).…”

Attribute Signatures: Dynamic Visual Summaries for Analyzing Multivariate Geographical Data

“…Inspired by Duany's concept of the 'urban transect' [16], we explore transects through London (a polycentric city) and Leicester (a monocentric city). We employ our key-framed brushing mechanism to create a linear west-east transect that starts at the westernmost outskirts of the city, passes through the center and continues to the eastern outskirts ( Figure 4).…”

Food Efficient Planning and Design for Peri-Urban Neighbourhoods

“…The 'Agrarian Urbanism' approach is intrinsically linked to 'The Transect' concept (DPZ 2014b ). 'The Transect' as a planning strategy (Talen 2002 ) provides a realistic basis of zoning for different types of development patterns along a ruralurban continuum (Duany 2002 ;Duany et al 2010 ; The City of Miami 2014 ). 'The Transect' has special districts (SD) and six broad land use zones: natural (T1), rural (T2), suburban (T3), general urban (T4), urban centre (T5) and urban core (T6) (Duany et al 2010 ; The City of Miami 2014 ).…”