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In recent years planning academicians, design professionals, and those specifically involved in land development have expressed a growing interest in improving their understanding of the processes and interrelationships that comprise land development. Unfortunately, the current processes fail to incorporate social, political, economic, and environmental issues into a single comprehensive paradigm. To accommodate this need, the disciplines of architectural design, urban planning, and land development were integrated to create an inclusive definition of land development. A definition that describes a successful strategy as one that is environmentally possible, ethnologically adoptable, and economically gainful. Using this definition as a foundation for comparison, a single land development project was used as the analytical point of departure for three distinct design/planning Studios. Each Studio extensively evaluated the proposal by identifying the relationships between process and form. The products from each Studio were analyzed to determine their contributions within the defined context of a successful strategy. These contributions were then incorporated into a comprehensive paradigm representing a greater sensitivity toward environmental and ethnological issues, while at the same time, recognizing the necessity for economic success.
"Major subject: Urban and Regional Science."