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Kristin Halloran

17 April

If you haven't turned in your peer review forms from the dossier project,
you need to do so ASAP! I've gone through them and recorded the grades, so
I know which of you haven't turned them in and it WILL affect your grade. I
need them by the end of the day TOMORROW (Monday, April 18). I'll be in my
studio and/or the 3rd floor graduate computer lab at the top of the stairs
in the west building tomorrow from about 10 am until 3. After that, your
grade will go down. There's no reason not to have turned these in - they're
available on cooldaze, and all you have to do is circle the appropriate
numbers and fill in the names.

If you sent me your evaluations via email, please print out a copy and bring
them to me - they need your signature, so I need paper copies.

ALL OF YOU RECEIVED THIS VIA EMAIL. THIS DOES NOT MEAN I AM MISSING YOUR FORMS SPECIFICALLY - THERE WERE SO MANY OF YOU THAT I SENT IT OUT TO THE WHOLE LIST, BUT I CANNOT RESPOND TO EACH OF YOU INDIVIDUALLY TELLING YOU THAT I HAVE YOUR FORMS!



26 February

Here are the instructions for compressing pictures, creating PDFs and putting page numbers on them. pdf_instructions.doc

25 February

All the important things you need to know about the research dossier:

SCHEDULE:
You'll be pinning up in studio on Wednesday (MWF studio) or Thursday (TTh studio) of this week. You'll get some feedback from your classmates and your studio professor, and then you'll have until Sunday to add anything that you think you need to add. YOU MUST GO TO THE 1012 LECTURE ON WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2. SABIR WILL GIVE YOU INFORMATION ABOUT THE DOSSIERS IN LECTURE. On Wednesday, I'll post another signup sheet outside Sabir's door so if you think your group needs to meet with me again, you'll know when I'm available. If my times don't work for you, PLEASE email me instead of just not signing up for a meeting!
Disclaimer: If you're in Tina's MWF section, I don't know what your studio schedule is going to be like. Here is my guess, but I can't promise anything: You'll have your studio review on Wednesday and your dossier pinup on Friday. You'll still have to hand in your final, complete dossier on Sunday.

FORMATTING - Physical:
I think I've covered most of this with most of you, but there are too many to be sure, so here are the specs:
Everything that's printed needs to be 8 1/2 x 11 sheets and three-hole punched. You might get to pick up binders in lecture on Wednesday of this week - if not, I'll get the binders from Sabir by Wednesday (maybe by Monday - we'll see) so between Wednesday and Sunday someone from each group needs to pick up a binder from me so you can put your stuff in it and hand the final document in to me on or before Sunday. (I'll let you know later when I will be where so that you can hand them directly to me.) You need to provide your own tabs to go between the six categories - the cheap yellow ones with the transparent colored tabs are fine (they have these at the GT Barnes and Noble). Please don't put any other tabs that stick out on the sides except for those six. Attached are sample pages to show you what I expect in terms of your text and organizational things. sample.doc The first page is the title page - this goes at the beginning of the binder. The second page is an example of a summary. (Yours might be longer, but don't put ALL the information you find into your summary. Then there's no point in including the scanned resources.) The third page is an annotated list of resources. The fourth page is a bibliography. For your bibliography, use MLA format. For web citations, make sure you include the date that you got the information - this is important because websites can change at any time. You probably won't need a bibliography for your section on Empirical Analysis and Observations. Some of you may not need one for Precedents, but most of you will. You still need an annotated list of resources, even if there are no citations on it, because it serves as a mini-table of contents for that section.

FORMATTING - Digital:
Arief is writing up specific directions for compressing pictures and creating pdf files. These will be posted sometime tomorrow. EVERYTHING must be in pdf format. In order to keep cooldaze from crashing, we may have you burn your entire dossier (in pdf format) onto a cd and upload them ourselves. Go to lecture on Wednesday to find out if you need to upload it or burn it onto a cd.

ABOUT THE PINUP:
When you pin up in studio on Wednesday, you have to pin up your 8 1/2 x 11 sheets in six rows that correspond with the six categories on the template. You don't have to pin up each sheet individually with two pins! For each "bunch" of related information (set of codes, for example, or if you have four pages on one precedent, or a whole bunch of pictures of landscaping elements or bike racks or door sensors or whatever - but probably NOT an entire category), my suggestion is to clip the sheets together with a small binder clip and hang the binder clip on ONE pin. (They have binder clips at Barnes and Noble too - they even have multicolored ones!) This way, you won't put holes in your pages, you won't have to use 98,629 pins, and you won't take up the entire architecture building with your dossier. And people can flip through related material more easily if its only attached to the board in one place. (Just for future reference, binder clips are a great way to pin up stuff that you don't want to put holes in or that is too heavy to stay up with a regular pin. It's also great if you have translucent paper, because you can clip it to a sheet of foamcore so the holes in the board don't show through and then hang it by the clips on some pins. And it's MUCH better than using spray mount to attach really nice vellum to foamcore, because it ALWAYS wrinkles. Believe me.) These pinups are entirely for your benefit, because after your classmates and studio professor give you feedback, you should be able to tell if your dossier is satisfactory or not, and if not, you can have another meeting with me and fix it before you hand it in on Sunday. I won't be there, because I have 21 groups and my own classes to go to, so your grade will eventually be coming from the final product, your participation in group meetings, and the evaluations you will do for each of your group members next week.


19 February

Important things that you all need to know:

I sent the template for the dossiers to one person in each group. Please contact me if your group hasn't gotten it. It will tell you what the six categories are that your dossier needs to be divided into, as well as what needs to be in each category. Most important, I think, is that each category needs an individual bibliography, so it's important that you've kept track of your sources well.

Don't buy a notebook or anything to put your information in. I think that Sabir is going to do that so they're all identical.

You will need to upload all your documents to cooldaze AND have a hard copy on the date that the project is due (March 2 for MWF studios and March 3 for TTH studios).

I have signup sheets up right now for the coming week, through Thursday. I'll have some signup times for Saturday and Sunday, and then I'll let you all know when I'll be at school on Monday and Tuesday evenings, and whether I'll be in my studio or the library - you can come and ask me last-minute questions or whatever.

As always, email me if you have questions.

4 February
Change of plans for the second meeting signups - because cooldaze has been down frequently, I am going to post paper signup sheets outside of Sabir's office (room 209) sometime today. Sign up for a second meeting (and a third meeting, too, if you want to plan ahead) when ALL of your group members can make it, no exceptions. I'm sorry for the change, and I apologize for not having signups up for last night like I said I would. Try to have the majority of your information collected for your second meeting so that we can talk about organization.


26 January

Welcome to a new project!

Please go to KJH Meetings and choose a time when all members of your group are available to meet with me. Put the name of at least one person in your group and your group number (B1-3 or whatever). Email me if you have any questions or your group can't make it at any of the times that are listed. We'll meet in the COA library. Please have questions and ideas to talk about!









12 December

We finished grading all your final exams, and the grades are on the course folder in the usual place. Grades are due to the registrar tomorrow (Monday), so I think that after that you will be able to check all of your final grades on Oscar.

I hope you all have a wonderful break!

6 December

Look - Kyle made a Final Exam Discussion page. Use it to study or whatever.

4 December

FINAL grades are posted. If you have any questions, please email me by midnight tomorrow (Sunday).

FYI, since a grade of 3 correlates with a B, grades will not be calculated as 3/4 = 75% = C. We have a meeting Sunday morning with Sabir to standardize our final grading system. My guess is that 3/4 will be around 85 or so, 2/4 will be around 75, etc.


3 December
ALL GRADES will be up this evening. I will post here again as soon as I put them into the grades folder. Please let me know by the end of Sunday if you think anything has been miscalculated!

Good luck on all your finals!

Just a note (that only specifically applies to those of you who are planning on choosing architecture, but should mean something to the rest of you, too): I saw a few of you in the atrium yesterday when Ellen and the jury were announcing the Portman competition results. For those of you who weren't there, the girl who won first place was commended on how well her project worked at varying scales, from the urban scale of its surroundings (it is on Memorial Drive here in Atlanta) to the scale of the furniture inside the building. It was a large building - 12 stories - but small scale stuff is just as important as large scale! So for the architects who don't want to learn about city planning/urban design or industrial design, this should demonstrate to you how important it is to be able to work in various scales.



Kristin,
some of us still have #DIV/O...do you think they'll be updated soon?
)
17 November

I posted some more grades this morning. If you have a divide by zero error in your 2nd set average, it just means I haven't finished yet. I started at the end of the alphabet for this set, so no one is missing grades for lots and lots of summaries. I haven't written as many comments - most of you are doing much better with your summaries, and if you got a 4, that means your summary will be an effective means of studying for the final. Feel free to browse through each other's summaries to help you study as well.

10 November

I've posted all of the latest grades I have. I haven't finished assignment 10.03, but in light of the soapbox discussion today, (which we DO read), I thought I should post what I have. Just over half of you have grades for that assignment; everyone has grades through the end of October. Last week's assignment - and the one due tomorrow - will be graded as soon as humanly possible. (Those of you who handed the assigments in late will see that the grades of zero or one ARE posted on the grades spreadhseet.) PLEASE, if you have issues with the timeliness or comments on your grades, EMAIL ME OR COME FIND ME!! Otherwise, I'll assume that the soapbox postings shouldn't concern me. We really all do want you to do well in this class, but we're students, too, and we have some of the same extremely demanding professors that you do!

Most of you still need to reformat your pages. This shouldn't take long at all; visit Basic page formatting to learn how to make things larger, smaller, bold, italicized, in tables, etc., or visit Kyle's Formatting Guidelines for a simple way to set up your reading summaries. If you choose to use colors, please don't use purple, since that's what I use for your comments.

8 November

Clarification: If you have received a grade of 2 on a summary, you can rewrite it for a better grade. You need to send me an email about it, and you need to show me on your page what is new and what is old.

Kyle made a Formatting Guidelines page that you might use to make distinctions between assigments, etc., on your reading summaries pages. Please use his format or some other easy-to-figure-out method of formatting your page!

4 November

Don't forget that you have a set of summaries due tomorrow at midnight. Since so many of you have expressed that you want to bring your summaries grade up, make sure that it's turned in on time. I haven't read the articles yet, but I've heard that they're short and interesting. Since the articles are short, make sure your summaries are as well - summaries are not intended to rewrite the entire article!

If you go back and rewrite any of your summaries, you need to email me and let me know, and make a distinction between old and new on your page. If you've completely rewritten something, leave the old one there. If you're changing or adding on to a summary, make the changes red, or bold, or something. Given the lack of separation (see below "important request") in most of your reading summaries pages, there is no way for me to go back and reread old summaries unless I know that you've made changes.

1 November

VERY IMPORTANT REQUEST: When you post your summaries, please use bold or colored fonts or lines (created by typing an underscore on an otherwise empty line) to separate your summaries and assignments. And please remember to put the assignment number (for example, 10.03) and the title and author of the assigned reading above your summary. Leave spaces between paragraphs - please check this after you post your summary to cooldaze to make sure your formatting stays intact. These are little things that will make my grading much easier (and therefore FASTER)! Thanks!

31 October

I am creating a page of example summaries - unless otherwise noted, they are summaries written by your classmates. I hope it helps.

27 October
Grades and comments for assignment 10.13 are posted now. Again, let me know if anything is incorrect. All of the attendance records were sorted incorrectly this morning, so chances are if you think something isn't right, it probably isn't.

Regarding the Solnit reading:
  • The majority of you didn't mention any of the other authors/theorists mentioned in Solnit's article, and she chiefly uses their writings to make or clarify her points about Paris. Some of you didn't even mention Walter Benjamin, who is extremely important.
  • Many of you didn't state explicitly that the relationship between public and private life in Paris is blurred, and that the existence of private life in what is normally the public realm is one of the unique things about Paris.
  • Many of you didn't address the physical changes that have taken place over time: in particular, Hausmann's new plan for the city of Paris and the introduction of cars. How did these changes affect pedestrian activity and therefore the atmosphere of life on the streets?

I'd like you all to go here and click on "affect/effect" in the menu box, then click on "show me". Most of you, at one time or another, have misused one of these words. This page is also a good resource for other easily confused words.


26 October

The attendance records posted in the grades folder were NOT correct - I've fixed them now.

25 October

I have graded assignment 10.20, posted comments on each of your reading summaries pages, and posted the grades in the course folder. Tomorrow I should be able to get through one more set - I'll probably do assignment 10.13. I have also posted the 0 (not turned in) and 1 (turned in late) grades on the spreadsheet in the course folder, and updated attendance records. Please let me know if you think that anything in my records is incorrect.

Assignment 10.20, over all, was very good! The Sorkin article is extremely dense and somewhat wordy (as some of you pointed out), and the majority of you pulled out the important points: the hierarchy of movement, how it differs in different communities and/or environments, and how public space can be manipulated to improve what the author sees as a major problem of American planning. If this is NOT what you got from the article, it would be a good idea to go back and try to pull out these ideas, just for your own benefit.

21 October

Assignment 10.20 was due last night at midnight. If you turn it in by midnight tonight, you will receive a 1, but after tonight, you will receive no credit for this assignment.

Even though PedEx is no longer an issue, you are still responsible for checking my TA page several times a week.

20 October 2004

Since the PedEx project has been suspended, there's no reason for any of you to meet with me anymore. I'll get back to grading your essays ASAP. Sorry to all of you who have already taken pictures and done work for the project! :( Let me know if anyone has any concerns about anything else.

PLEASE come to class - my attendance sheets have been absolutely dismal compared to the other sections'... and remember that unexcused absences will affect your final grade in this class!



14 October 2004
If anyone hasn't received the following email (to your gtg account) please let me know ASAP.

Hello all-

This is a very important email to remind you that PedEx has started, and you should be well on your way to having the Week 1 assignments completed. There are many groups who I have not yet met with in their entirety, and I need to do so by the end of this week, NO EXCEPTIONS. If you are in a group and have not yet met with your other group members, please do the following, RIGHT NOW.

1) Check your email. I have been emailing you and your group members have been emailing you. They need to know when you are available. I need to know when our weekly meeting is going to be.

2) Check my TA page on cooldaze. You are supposed to be doing this regularly anyway - now that PedEx has started, please check it at least every other day for updates.

3) Go to the groups page and see if your group has posted on the individual page that is linked to your group number. I suggest you put your email address into the update box at the bottom of the page, and check your email regularly.

4) KEEP IN TOUCH WITH YOUR GROUP. Each time we have a weekly meeting, I will be asking who has done what during the previous week. I know this sucks, and I wasn't planning on doing it, but I have received so many complaints about apathetic group members that I have no choice. I will also be asking for this in written form at the end of the semester, and I will be asking you to grade the effort/input of each of your group members.

BY THE END OF THE DAY ON THURSDAY, I would like to have weekly meetings scheduled for EACH GROUP. The KJH Meetings page has, in purple, the weekly meetings that have been arranged so far. I am available Tuesday from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and Thursday from 3:15 p.m. into the evening (this is when I have scheduled some groups already, so please check the page before you email me regarding Thursday meetings). If there is absolutely no way you can make a Tuesday or Thursday meeting work, I can arrange to be available on Monday or
Wednesday mornings before 10 a.m., or Monday and Wednesday evenings.
EMAIL ME FIRST - when you hear back from me, then POST YOUR WEEKLY MEETING TIME AND ALL GROUP MEMBERS' NAMES ON THE MEETINGS PAGE.

I'm sorry to have to send this email to all of you, because I know that some of you are getting things done, and you know who you are. Consider this a warning - if your groups can't get organized enough to arrange a meeting at some point during the week, it will be reflected in your grade.

Just a note - if you arrange to meet after COA lectures, please arrange a specific meeting place. Today after lecture, I spoke to members of several groups who were searching for one another but were in various places within and around the auditorium. COMMUNICATE, either via email, or preferably, through the pages I have created for you. If you use those pages, I can respond as well, as I have already done for at least one group.

Let me know if you have any questions, or if you are STILL having difficulties contacting your group members.

Kristin

9 October

I have created discussion pages for each of the PedEx groups. Please use them to organize yourselves, etc. If you did not decide on a weekly meeting time at our first meeting, please let me know via email as soon as your group agrees on a time, and please post it on your group's discussion page! I am available Tuesdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Thursdays after 3 p.m. (including evenings).

Don't forget you do have a summary due this week!

6 October

I'm sorry I wasn't in class today - Lida told me that several of you were looking for me after the lecture. Please email me if you need to - I check my email ALL the time, and I'll get back to you ASAP. Or you can even come and find me this afternoon in my studio on the third floor of the new building in the studio all the way to the west (towards the electrical engineering building) if it's really important.

5 October

No one has signed up for a meeting with me yet; again, please do this as soon as possible! When you sign up, you can choose a place to meet if you'd like. As I said before, the courtyard or the first floor by the main doors, or even upstairs on the second or third floors by the balcony stairs is fine with me - I'll have a copy of the PedEx assignments printed out that we can refer to if we need to.

4 October

To find out what group you are in, go to groups.

I've created a page where you can communicate with one another if you don't know all of the people in your group and need to figure out when you are all available to meet with me. It is called KJH PedEx and I'm leaving it completely up to you to figure out the best way to use it - it's probably a good idea to look up each other's email addresses as well, at http://www.gatech.edu/directories in case you don't all get around to checking this page. PLEASE sign up for times to meet with me ASAP!

4 October

Those of you who didn't sign up for a group have been assigned to one, and I've noted your three-block street sections next to the group numbers, in bold. Please go to KJH Meetings to sign up for a half-hour when your group is available to meet with me. Your entire group must come to the meeting! It might be convenient for you to choose one person to be the communicator between me and the group. When you sign up on the meetings page, please put your communicator's name and the letter of your street section. Send me an email if you can't meet with me on Tuesday or Thursday and need to set up an evening, morning, or weekend time. I'll let you know where we are meeting as soon as I figure it out.

For those of you who havent turned in your summaries yet, I'll give you until noon on Monday with no penalty! If you turn it in between noon and midnight, you will receive a 1, and after that, a 0, as indicated in the grading criteria (see summaries instructions).

I think that's it - I look forward to actually meeting you all in person! Make sure you check back here often now that the PedEx projects are getting underway.

1 October

Please sign up for a group for the PedEx project on the groups page by Sunday evening. Whoever has not signed up for a group will be placed randomly. By Monday evening, I will assign a three-block section to each group and you can get started! Monday I will also post the times I will be available to meet with you: a big block of time on Tuesday and a smaller block on Thursday. If there are any groups that absolutely cannot do Tuesday or Thursday, we can set up an evening or earlier-morning meeting. Figure out if you have any questions to ask me before we meet.

I will eventually get comments up for the last two sets of summaries, I promise!

Have a great weekend!

18 September

I know that I owe several of you email responses to questions you have asked, and that I haven't posted grades for the last two assignments. I apologize, but please understand that this week is the worst - I have a jury on Monday, a paper due on Monday, and about 400 or so other projects to work on... I know you can all sympathize! The earliest I can promise you grades is probably Thursday, September 23. I also want to let you know that I'll be out of town and probably not even accessible by email from Friday afternoon to Sunday evening, September 24-26.

Before you write me email about your grades, please review the summary template and see if you have followed it. I can not give you a good grade if you havent provided responses to each of the sections in the template, no matter how good your writing is. Nor can I give you a good grade if you haven't proofread and spell checked, even if you've summarized well.

We (the TAs) apologize for the problems in discussion on Friday. Discussion with 280 people just isn't easy to do, but there were some good points made. If you have more to say, you should definitely check out the lecture discussions page; there is already some good stuff up there! I think you should all sign your names to your postings - keep your anonymity in the soapbox - but that's just my opinion, not a requirement.

Good luck in your reviews on Monday and Tuesday!

9 September

Notes on Assignment 09.01

  • Don't forget to rearrange your Reading Summaries page if it is out of order!
  • Many of you have stated that Levittown was built on Cape Cod. Please read carefully - Cape Cod is a style of housing! Levittown is located on Long Island, which is part of New York.

7 September

I'm writing this at 12:30 and there are eleven of you who haven't yet posted your summaries for assignment 09.06 - please do so ASAP! Please remember to post your summaries in reverse chronological order. If they are currently out of order, please rearrange them. Thanks!

5 September

Comments on Assignment 09.01

In general, your assignments have improved over the street essays. However, most of you still have at least one of the following:
  • careless mistakes
  • misspelled words
  • incorrect references to the article
  • grammar and punctuation errors
  • misuse of possessives
  • misuse of their/there/they're

Please don't forget to reread your summary before you cut and paste to your Reading Summaries! It's very important for all of you to learn to be careful with all of your work, not just "design" work. Look at the links below to help you with writing issues.

The following should have been included in your summary:
  • List/definitions of significant terms and concepts.
  • Description of each of the three developments that Hayden discussed. You should have at least a short sentence about each one.
  • Mention of the economic issues that were important at the time the communities were built.
  • Mention of the effects that each of the communities has had on the American dream and the current American housing crisis.

Here are some links to help you with your writing:


2 September 2004

I've commented on all of the first assignments. Please email me (gtg633m@mail.gatech.edu) if you have any questions about my comments.

1 September 2004

Just a few updates:

  • Don't forget to put dates on each of your reading summaries, and keep them in reverse chronological order (newest at the top of the page). I've started adding my comments to your Reading Summaries pages, and they're all bold and purple. Please don't lock your Reading Summaries! I haven't gotten through them all yet, but I promise I will soon. After Labor Day weekend, you will find out how to access your grades.

  • Towards the end of this week, I'll be posting a discussion question with a link to a separate page where you can all respond.

Additional Comments on Assignment 08.25
  • Carelessness: Many of you have made references to people and places that are not mentioned in the San Francisco excerpt. In some cases, you have even called the city by the wrong name. PLEASE pay attention to what you are reading and think about what you are typing; before you cut and paste to cooldaze, reread what you've written. See if it makes sense when you read it out loud. It would be to your advantage to have someone else read it for you - this probably means getting it done in advance.
  • Focus: The two sections of the first assignment had specific instructions/questions to answer. Many of you started out well but didn't stay on track, and didn't hit all of the points that we hoped you would. Others focused on a single event, without making observations of the physical aspects of the street. In part two, many of you referred to specific phrases that the author used; this was effective in keeping you focused on the details of the city.
  • Word use: Try to avoid words like "nice" and "good" that don't really describe anything. Similarly, avoid simple sentence structures, such as, "My house is big. The street is wide. The people are friendly. The trees are tall." Create something that you think other people would enjoy reading (think of me reading all 47 of these every week).

31 August 2004

Comments on Assignment 08.25

  • I know I mentioned structure before - this is one of the most important things that almost all of you need to focus on. Avoid writing "stream of consciousness" essays; try to format your writing in some way so that it
(a) starts with observations, etc., and moves to an overarching conclusion that is supported by your observations, or
(b) starts with your main idea and progresses (in an organized manner) through your supporting ideas.
  • Use quotes to support your conclusions, but don't just stick quotes in where you think they look good - make sure they're appropriate and you can make clear why you chose them and how they're pertinent - which quotes apply to your conclusions about urban fabric and social fabric? Which ones support your statements about San Francisco?
  • Try to address the direct relationships between the physical qualities of the street on which you lived and the experiences you and others had on the street. Similarly, try to figure out what specific characteristics of the streets in San Francisco affected the experience described by the author.

Remember, it may be helpful for you to read your classmates' essays. You may also want to look at what the other TAs have posted.

General writing reminders:

  • PLEASE spell check your work in Word (or whatever word processing program you use) before you copy and paste it onto your reading summaries page.
  • Don't invent words! If you aren't sure of a word, use a dictionary or a thesaurus to see if it exists and make sure you're using it correctly. If you're spell checking, these words should be highlighted by your spell-checker.
  • Create paragraphs. A good general rule of thumb is that a paragraph should be no shorter than three sentences and no longer than eight sentences, but there are always exceptions. (To make your work easier to read on the web, please put an empty line between paragraphs.)
  • Structure your essay. Intro, body, conclusion is the simplest way to do it - it's the method you've (hopefully) been using for years, but it's the best way to write anything, from a short reponse paper to a novel or thesis.

Quick things to review that I don't want to bore you with:
  • Subject-verb agreement
  • There/their/they're, its/it's and your/you're confusion
  • Commas, semi-colons and colons
  • Preposition use
  • Which/that/whom
  • Possessives

27 August

I'm going to leave it up to you individually to decide whether or not you want to receive an email whenever this page is edited. It's your responsibility to make sure you know when something is assigned for this particular section, but I don't want you all to be bombarded with emails each time I make a spelling mistake and have to go back and fix it. If you would like to receive an email when this page is updated, please click on edit at the top of the page and then enter your email address in the box at the bottom. If you choose not to sign up for reminder emails, make sure you check this page frequently.

Each time an assignment is due, I'm going to post some general comments here that apply to most or all of you. Any comments that apply to individual essays/summaries will be posted on your reading summaries pages. If you have questions or you want more input, email me at gtg633m@mail.gatech.edu. (If you have a junk mail box or anything like that, please also put kristinhalloran@hotmail.com on your safe list, because when I'm at home I may respond from that address).


25 August

Just a reminder to get your "street where I live" assignments and your responses to the San Francisco excerpt up by midnight. In addition to Kyle's page, for questions on urban and social fabric, you can take a look at the definition that Myung posted today.

24 August

From time to time I'll be answering questions here and posting questions, pictures, quotes, and links for you all to respond to. Usually, it will be for your own benefit and it will be up to you to decide how much or how little you participate. Occasionally I'll post a mandatory discussion topic that I'll want everyone to respond to, so make sure that you check this page several times a week.

If you have questions about the ideas of urban fabric and social fabric, take a look at what Kyle has to say. Think about the characteristics of a piece of fabric and how it is created, and how it compares to San Francisco, or Atlanta, or another city that you're familiar with.


20 August

Hi!

I'm in my second year of the 3 1/2-year M.Arch. program. I am currently in Options 1 studio with Ed Akins, and we are working on various sites along the Marietta Street corridor. I'm really interested in urban design and community renewal so I think I'm going to enjoy Ed's studio a lot.

I have a bachelor's degree in American Studies from Smith College in Massachusetts, and I've taken a lot of architectural history courses.

You can email me at gtg633m@mail.gatech.edu if you have any questions about anything, or you can stop by my studio - I'm in the studio to the west of the grad lab (the one with the nice black computers) on the third floor. I'm looking forward to getting to know you all this semester, so put something fun and interesting on your Personal Pages so I'll be able to remember you: pictures, funny stories, whatever.

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