Urban Design Performance Indicators
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Following Kevin Lynch’s investigations of “Good City Form” (1984), this workshop explored how meaningful formal qualities of the built environment can be described and quantified. We particularly focused on measurable indicators that showed potential to capture qualities that the users of the built environment might value, as well as those that would help complement urban designers' arsenal of existing tools and methods. To test the proposed KPIs, student teams developed a whole range of different urban form and land use proposals for two pilot sites surrounding Commuter Rail stations in Chelsea and Lynn, MA and worked around an iterative design–analysis–redesign process to improve the design outcomes with KPIs.