2024-12-22T03:20:06-05:00 https://archinect.com/features/article/149964898/come-rain-or-shine-reviving-collective-urban-form-with-the-gsd-s-office-for-urbanization Julia Ingalls 2016-09-16T12:17:00-04:00 >2020-02-03T12:12:57-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/l5/l5d39x52krti8why.tiff?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>In architecture, city-wide design concepts have a checkered history: public housing projects and century-old zoning ordinances seem to have created almost as many problems as they were intended to solve. And yet, the dream of the collective urban form may be restored with the work of the Harvard Graduate Design School&rsquo;s new Office for Urbanization. Headed by landscape architecture professor Charles Waldheim, the Office for Urbanization is currently tackling the problems of sea level rise in Miami Beach, but the scope of its research is unearthing a promising new realm of possibilities.</p>