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The sense of place is a concept that places a value on a certain location.This is especially important in our ever expanding society and ever ex-panding technology. As we spread out physically because of the links toeach other digitally, a regional headquarters is placed in a location that isconsequently more prized because of the disconnect from its employeesor clients. This strategy can improve the sustainability of the building be-cause of the lack of transportation to and from a building.


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Architectural design is primarily designing the environment we live in. Itallows us as humans to dictate what we want around us and control ourenvironment- to a point. The environment can be on a personal scale, such

as an ofce or bathroom, or it could spread to a grander, more holistic scale,such as a city plan.

Architecture has grown from a eld that designs monumental structures

to include a more personal variety of projects. This creates a human in-teraction with the environment, something which has seen a signicantresurgence. When a building interacts with a person, it engages senses.Generally, the more senses the building taps into, the more meaningful the


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How will architecture impact transportation in the future? The move-ment toward green design will continue and also express the capabilityof what we can do. The technology developed will transfer into the trans-portation industry and we will see more innovations by interested design-

ers. As Tom and Ray Magliozzi explored in the PBS series NOVA, (2008),the future of transportation is very bright. Many small entrepreneurialdesigners have taken a leap forward to examine what it really means totransport, what is needed, and what is the future. Tom and Ray use theircar guy attitude to take a critical look at these innovations. They ndthat although the future is very exciting, they are not ready to let go of thepast. The attitude of the rest of America is similar. We do not want to letour horsepower driven attitude to disappear into the dust. But it is curi-ous to see how we are willing to use new innovative solutions to solve our

building problems and we are unwilling to let our powerful cars go.


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These two cooperate by borrowingtechnology, materials, and a qual-ity of feeling. In the future, I

am confdent that we will seemore harmonious designsbetween the two. As thepublic desires a greenerfuture, designers have

no choice but tostep into the un-known and fnd

new solutions.


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Transportation and the impacts on the travelers come in many forms, each as relevant and important a

Transportation and the Experience of Travel, (1987)as technology increases our ability to travel in an

of traveling has been warped into a necessity instead of an enjoyable experience. Take walking for exa

sil fuels, one was either to walk or employ some sort of animal. Walking was sought after as a past ti

enjoyed being out and about amongtheir neighbors and environment

because they knew nothing more.

As the transportation industry grew

ever quicker, the value placed on a

lazy stroll through the park was re-placed by a Sunday drive, or a day

trip on the train. People soon real-

ized how these modes of transpor-

tation dissociated a traveler from

the environment. People did notstop by shops on the boardwalk nor

did people take time to walk to the

park. This can be seen all through-

out the transportation realm. How

much more disconnected from the

environment can you be by ying

30,000 feet over the landscape?


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T

ransportation of people and things

is the engine that runs our society.We use these systems to feed our need

to consume and experience. Conse-

quently, the transportation industry

has dominated the great Americanlandscape for decades. Canals, rail-

roads, interstates, and even the ports

that connect the web of invisible air-

line paths have created, removed, and

molded our civilization into what it is

today.

From the ancient metropolis at Xochicalco, Morelos, Mexico, we can see evidence of inteexplains in Transportation Architecture at Xochicalco, Morelos, Mexico, (1982), these grea

winding communication and trade routes throughout the mountains. These rugged pathways w

the mountains, but once within the city, a Cartesian grid was drawn off of the major trade routes

paved with mosaic tiles bordered with cut stone curbs, smooth ramps to boardwalks, and majoplacement of civic buildings. Residential, commerce, and leisure zones such as parks were a

before its time. It is hard to tell what exactly the designers of this era were taking into consid

thin is for certain: the were desi ned.


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Transportation has the power to rationali

plan on any scale. However, transportation

designed from large to small; for example, a

to an alleyway. A travelers experience along

that the perspective gained by each stage o

dramatically. The major arterial routes creat

that can only be satised by easy owing ef

streets such as a Main Street pull off of th

distribute into numerous veins of streets anthese levels of movement creates a differe

the last. Entering a city for example, a trav

by the increasing number of structures, and

need to slow down. When getting into smalle

decreases more yet because of the environ


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