Chapter 3
Activities
Activity 3.1
Consult the research page of the Center for Applied Transect Studies (CATS) website. Some transects fall under the category “pop culture”, and a few examples are shown here.
Activity 3.4
One perspective on the mixing of housing types is offered in this video about the mix of housing types in Vancouver, where apartment buildings and single family homes are thought to successfully intermix.
Activity 3.6
One approach to a transect walk is described here.
Activity 3.7
A pdf of the SmartCode manual version 9.2, which includes Table 4A, "Public Frontages", can be found here.
Sidebars
Sidebar 3.3
A good place to start is Sandy Sorlien’s collection of transect photographs.
The metrics listed in Table 3.2. are part of the “Smartcode” standards.
Sidebar 3.4
More details about how to conduct a Dissect and Quadrat analysis can be found on the transect website. Duany, Plater-Zyberk & Co should be credited with the idea of applying the synoptic survey, a standard approach used in environmental analysis, to the human habitat.