Exercise 3.1—The Planner, the Developer, and the Architect The main goal of ‘The planner, the developer, and the architect’ is to make explicit to students, some of the main interactions between different agents, taking place in the process of city building. The game should be played in the classroom, preferably in a CAD environment, involving simulation of action in a particular site in the city where the game occurs, and encompassing the interaction of three different groups of students in three consecutive moments.

Planners are the first group. The task of the planners, acting as one single team, is the definition of the rules of urban form transformation for ‘that’ site, bearing in mind the urban landscape where it fits in: i. what should be conserved (?); ii. what can be transformed (?); and iii. how can it be transformed (?). The second group is the developers. Bearing inmind the rules defined by the team of planners, the developers,

divided into two different teams, should establish the programme for new buildings to be erected on the site. The definition of this programme should bear in mind the main goal for developers—economic profit. The last group is the architects. Based on the inputs of the team of planners and the two teams of developers, four teams of architects (two for each team of developers) should briefly outline the plans and façades of the new buildings. At the end of the game, with four proposals for the site, the debate should reflect on the contribution of each team for the results.