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Biophilia:

The human love of nature based inon the intrinsic interdependence between humans and other living systems.

Charrette:

A planning session in which participants brainstorm and visualize solutions to a design issue.

Comprehensive plan (also master plan or general plan):

A municipal document(s) based upon establishing long-term goals and objectives that serves as a guide for making land use changes, preparation of capital improvement programs, and the rate, timing, and location of future development. Elements include economic development, environment, housing, land use, recreation and open space, and transportation.

Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU):

An organization founded in 1993 by six architects – Peter Calthorpe, Andrés Duany, Elizabeth Moule, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Stefanos Polyzoides, and Daniel Solomon – united around a shared vision of promoting traditional urbanism as an antidote to conventional sprawl created an ad hoc organization to convene annual...

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    Douglas Farr

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  1. Center for Building Performance and Diagnostics, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

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Farr, D. (2018). Sustainable Urbanism. In: Meyers, R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2493-6_1044-1

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