The Science of City Design: Architectural Algorithms for City Planning & Design Leadership

The Science of City Design provides the perspective, format, vocabulary, language, measurement, and forecasting ability to shelter the activities of growing human populations within a limited Built Domain that protects their quality and source of life – The Natural Domain. Our challenge is to visualize, measure, predict, and establish a sustainable relationship between the cities we build to shelter activity and the source of life we consume in the process. The Plant and Animal kingdoms of Linnaeus have been superseded by two worlds on a single planet - The Built and Natural Domains. This book introduces a new language of design categories, specification values, architectural algorithms, master equations, shelter capacity predictions, and intensity calculations that can be used to discuss the issue and define leadership alternatives in terms that can repeat success without duplicating physical composition, context, and appearance.

WALTER M. HOSACK is retired from a career as registered architect, certified city planner, Director of Planning, Engineering, Building, and Code Compliance in local government, and a Deputy Director in the Ohio Department of Transportation. His past experience has included leadership, management, design and production experience in architecture, engineering, urban design, city planning, building regulation, code compliance and zoning administration. He has designed, produced and managed strategic plans and contract documents for projects ranging in size from residential homes to $100 million commercial projects. He has previously written Land Development Calculations, editions 1 and 2, published by McGraw-Hill. These efforts combine with his education and experience to form the technical foundation for The Science of City Design.