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During this internship, Liz Westbrook was able to observe how landscape architecture, site design, vaastu principles and construction is done in Northern India.

A lot the the work involved office support, design brainstorming and cultural observations/discussions. Liz's boss, Shishir is very knowledgeable in research design and he was able to support her in thesis development. Although this is not necessarily associated with the company, it was of mutual interest for both Liz and Shishir.

Internship Details

Organization	saa synergies - Baroda, Gujarat, India
Employment Sector	Private
Student's Field of Study	Landscape Architecture
Topic Areas of Internship	Land Use Planning, Urban Environment, and Water Resources
Duration & Dates	8 weeks, starting 5/4/2008
Skills Gained	Design Skills, Research, and Construction Processes in India
Duties Performed	Conduct Studies/Research, Design Support, Visiting Construction Sites
How Student Obtained Internship	Shishir was Liz's undergraduate professor
Paid or Unpaid?	Unpaid

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SS Forum - Chris Kennedy & John Crittenden
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  Two renowned scholars on urban systems share their perspectives on how we may foster more resilient and sustainable urban infrastructures for the 21st Century. Professor Christopher Kennedy (Civil Engineering, University of Toronto) presents cities as an urban metabolism, composed of material and energy stocks and flows, and discusses how infrastructure is a fundamental determinant of the metabolism. Professor John Crittenden (Director, Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems, Georgia Tech University) introduces the audience to infrastructure ecology, which conceptualizes and models traditional infrastructures (e.g., water, energy, transportation) and socio-economic-ecological infrastructures (e.g., community design, land use planning) as an intertwined, complex, emergent urban nexus.
  
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