Housing Design, Urban Form, and Sustainable Development
Write and summarize the article;
Goodchild, Barry. “Housing Design, Urban Form and Sustainable Development: Reflections on the Future Residential Landscape.” The Town Planning Review.
The summary may address the following issues: the significance of the issue, research questions, major argument, data and methods, results of findings, and final conclusions; also include your reflection on the article: the strengths and weaknesses of the article. where you agree and disagree with the author(s).
Please, the submission should be non-Ai detection. I will not accept an Ai-detected paper.
(If I wanted that I would have gone to chat GPT)
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Goodchild, Barry Article Review
The article “Housing Design, Urban Form and Sustainable Development: Reflections on the Future Residential Landscape” by Barry Goodchild discusses the principles of sustainable development as applied to urban development. The significance of this article is that it offers a critique of some urban development practices due to their implications on the environment. Urban development poses a significant environmental challenge that attracts the attention of environmentalists. Stakeholders, including architects, face a conundrum regarding achieving utility, aesthetics, and environmental sustainability. Goodchild’s main argument in the article is that it is unrealistic and damaging for architects and environmentalists to try to create more visually coherent, compact forms (Goodchild 143). This argument is especially so if they pursue these objectives to an extreme and in a way that seeks to standardize urban space.
The article focuses on discussions of urban design, an urban housing form. The research questions are