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Epigraph
… human beings are inherently storytellers who have a natural capacity to recognize the coherence and fidelity of stories they tell and experience … we experience and comprehend life as a series of ongoing narratives, as conflicts, characters, beginnings, middles, and ends.
Walter R. Fisher
Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context -— a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan.
Eliel Saarinen
Scaling simply refers, in its most elemental form, to how a system responds when its size changes. What happens to a city or a company if its size is doubled?
Geoffrey West
Dedication
To all students, past, present, and future