188:. A unique perception of the city has formed the basis of his work. As a theorist, Gandelsonas is known for his approach to urbanism based on reading the plans of cities like they are text. His striking analytical diagrams of American cities have become a trademark for investigations into urban morphology. In the early 1990s, he developed the concept of "Vision Planning" as a new approach to his urban planning work for the city of Des Moines. The Des Moines Vision Plan contained three major propositions: reversing the flight to the suburbs and bringing back the life to downtown, the creation of a major public space, the
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Director of Educational Programs from 1981 until 1984. Later, as a Fellow of the Chicago Institute for Architecture and Urbanism (1988-1990), he refined his approach to urbanism—based on reading the plans of cities as if they were text—with a computational analysis of
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From 2014 to 2018, Gandelsonas was the
Princeton University lead of the research network "Fluvial Metropolis" in partnership with the University of SĂŁo Paulo, a program funded by the Princeton Council for International Teaching and Research. Currently Gandelsonas is the Principal Investigator of the
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Gandelsonas became the first director of the Center for
Architecture, Urbanism and Infrastructure (CAUI) at Princeton University in 2007 and remained in the post until 2013. With funding from Princeton University's Council for International Teaching and Research, the mission of CAUI was to build a
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Shanghai. The China Studio, which continued until 2012, provided advanced graduate students from the School of Architecture the opportunity to explore another culture's architectural and urban existence first-hand. In 2013, he started a new joint program with the University of SĂŁo Paulo
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