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PARAMETRIC PLANNING:

Redefining urban form through the next generation of sustainability planning.

Rethinking the fundamental strategies of urban communities through holistic, quantitative, and systems-integrated performance analysis to all scales of place-making design.

PARAMETRIC:

A set of measurable factors, such as temperature and surface area, that define a system and determine its behavior, and are varied in an experiment.

PLANNING:

The synergy of the disciplines of urban planning, architecture, landscape architecture and transport planning - to explore a wide range of aspects of the built and social environments of urbanized communities. Also, re-generation - by adapting urban planning methods to existing cities suffering from infrastructural and social decay.