• Course Outline
    • Welcome Page
    • Getting Started
      • Syllabus Review
      • Course Structure
      • Module Overview and Objectives
      • Typical Weekly Study Time
      • Core Readings
      • Lesson Narrative
      • Collaboration
      • Assignments
      • Final Geodesign Project
      • Monitoring Course Communications
      • Getting Help
      • Take the Orientation Quiz
    • Modules
      • Module 1: Thinking in Systems
        • History of Geodesign
        • Frank Lloyd Wright: "Organic Architecture"
        • Richard Neutra: Survival Through Design
        • An Example: The New Jersey Shore
        • Week 1 Assignment
        • Next Lesson
        • Warren Manning and Overlay Mapping
        • Ian McHarg and Design with Nature
        • Carl Steinitz and A Framework for Geodesign
        • Howard Fisher and SYMAP
        • Michael Goodchild and GI-Science
        • Jack Dangermond and ESRI
        • Emergence of the Term "Geodesign"
        • Defining Geodesign
        • Systems Thinking
      • Module 2: Collaboration and Context
        • Core Readings and Guiding Questions
        • Local Collaboration
        • The Role of Local Knowledge
        • Team Collaboration
        • Geographic Context and Scale
        • The Steinitz Framework for Geodesign: Six Questions, Three Iterations
        • Representation Models (Inventory)
        • Process Models (Analysis)
        • Evaluation Models (Suitability Maps)
        • Change Models (Scenario Alternatives) + Impact Models
        • Decision Models (Preferred Solution)
        • Case Study: Soma City
        • Next Lesson
        • Week 2 Assignment
        • Case Study: Geodesign for the Port of Rotterdam
      • Module 3: Steinitz Framework First Iteration
        • Framework Overview
        • Assignment - Haddon Strategies
        • Next Lesson
        • Rapid Strategies
        • Core Readings and Guiding Questions
        • Thinking Ahead: Multiple Scenarios
      • Module 4: Outlining a Method (2nd Iteration of the Geodesign Framework)
        • Same Models, New Questions
        • Second Iteration: Decision Models
        • Second Iteration: Impact Models
        • Second Iteration: Change Models
        • Second Iteration: Evaluation Models
        • Second Iteration: Process Models
        • Second Iteration: Representation Models
        • An Abstract Framework
        • An Example Problem: Staten Island
        • Geodesign is Always Unique
        • Assignment
        • Next Lesson
      • Module 5: Two Additional Frameworks: Geodesign Workflow and LUCIS
        • Geodesign Workflow
        • Land-Use Conflict Identification Strategy (LUCIS)
          • What is LUCIS?
          • Five Steps of LUCIS
          • Definitions
          • The LUCIS Model
            • Goals and Objectives
            • Data Inventory and Preparation
            • Land-use Suitability
            • Integrating Community Values
            • Potential Land-Use Conflicts
            • Future Land-Use Allocation
        • Assignment
        • Next Lesson
      • Module 6: Incorporating Feedback - Steinitz Framework Third Iteration
        • Implementing the Process
        • Diagnosing the Framework
        • Finding Leverage Points
        • Quiz 3 and Peer Review
        • Next Lesson
        • Yes, No, or Maybe
      • Module 7: Geodesign, Fitness, and the Future
        • Core Readings And Guiding Questions
        • Suitability Encourages Sustainability
        • A Case for the Dune Ecosystem
        • A Sustainable Framework
        • What is Geodesign?
          • The Geodesign Toolbox
        • Assignment
        • Geodesign and "The Right to the City"
    • Collaboration
      • Core Readings And Guiding Questions
      • Analog v. Digital Technology
      • The Risk of GIS-centered Design
      • Assignment
      • Next Lesson
      • Yammer
      • VoiceThread