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Context Sensitive Design


"Context Sensitive Design looks at the purpose and need of a project and balances those with the different interests and often competing concerns of the stakeholders as well as taking into account the environmental sensitivities of the area from the very beginning of any project."
--Mary Kaufman

 

Context Sensitive Solutions

Context Sensitive Design: How to Build Success into Highway Projects from the Start
(80K) by Mary A. Kaufman. An overview of Context Sensitive Design and its benefits.

 

CSS: It's solving problems cost appropriately---It's not design. (52K) by Mary A. Kaufman.  A summary of observations on the cost effectiveness of CSS and state budgets.  "Throwing out CSS is pitching the very thing that in times of financial dieting can help states stick to a leaner budget with quality and an eye toward solving problems in the future. It seems counter intuitive doesn't it?"

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