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“In traditional feng shui practice, every outdoor space, no matter how small, is considered to be a representation of the larger Cosmos. Symbolically, human beings are the emotional organs of the earth, just as rivers are the circulatory system, and trees are the respiratory system. Each element of a site or landscape is therefore symbolic of larger forces in the region: houses can be metaphorical mountains; roads can represent rivers, and parking lots can represent lakes. Land development is therefore seen as a way to connect to larger cosmic forces. Whereas the interior of a structure is conceived in terms of the movement of energies and the disposition of objects in architectural space, outdoor environments are more directly correlated to the larger forces of nature and to the elementary components of the physical world. Land planning from the feng shui perspective is the orchestration of vast cosmic forces on behalf of the community, its civic identity, and the wealth, health, and success of future generations.” - Alex Stark

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The Feng Shui of Seaside

Published: New Urbanism In Practice – The Newsletter of the New Urbanism Division of the American Planning Association: Volume 5 – Issue 2 – Summer 2007 Life was breathed into the New Urbanism movement when Seaside was built. Seaside embodies a return to the right concepts of community development for the right reasons, […]

Thesis – Chapter 2 Planning Today: 2.1 Sprawl

It should be noted that the residential sector is the largest user of urban space. It constitutes from 30 to 50 percent of the developed land in an urban area (Kaiser, Godschalk, Chapin, 1995). Jaquelin Robertson, in The Seaside Debates notes, “Since 1945, we have built a second America, as much as was built between […]