This paper suggests telework, and work/life community created by it, as potential design tools for the sustainability oflocal communities, and investigates their possibility and issues through a case study of Loma Lin...This paper suggests telework, and work/life community created by it, as potential design tools for the sustainability oflocal communities, and investigates their possibility and issues through a case study of Loma Linda Connected CommunityProgram (LLCCP).A new work/life style enabled by information communication technology (ICT), often called telework, is expandingin the U.S. The environmental impact which this gives on community scale has been neglected. Yet, since teleworkcan give the area economic advancement without huge development, make mixed-use zoning plausible, and grantssense of community, it could bring physical, economic and social sustainability to local communities.LLCCP, as an example of emerging municipal ICT deployment programs, was examined on two levels;i.e. levelof urban policy and of urban design. It was revealed that LLCCP, as an urban policy, has a good potential to createICT-served work/life community, thus to contribute to the smart growth of the city. It does so by promoting new businessesyet small/home ones only, and developing new neighborhoods yet ICT-served work/life communities only. Itslink to regional plans and to the building code which ensures the connectivity in entire city elevate its possibility.The paper also pointed out that city’s urban design strategies are not yet supporting LLCCP toward its goal. Itlacks coordination with teleworkers’ life style, and with spatial system for the entire city. A current design proposaloverlooks teleworkers’ driving habits and their specifi c needs to the types of retails/business-services, for example. Theresult implies that the use of telework in creating sustainable community may have started to be recognized on urbanpolicy level, but that urban/architectural design for it is still behind to be developed.展开更多
文摘This paper suggests telework, and work/life community created by it, as potential design tools for the sustainability oflocal communities, and investigates their possibility and issues through a case study of Loma Linda Connected CommunityProgram (LLCCP).A new work/life style enabled by information communication technology (ICT), often called telework, is expandingin the U.S. The environmental impact which this gives on community scale has been neglected. Yet, since teleworkcan give the area economic advancement without huge development, make mixed-use zoning plausible, and grantssense of community, it could bring physical, economic and social sustainability to local communities.LLCCP, as an example of emerging municipal ICT deployment programs, was examined on two levels;i.e. levelof urban policy and of urban design. It was revealed that LLCCP, as an urban policy, has a good potential to createICT-served work/life community, thus to contribute to the smart growth of the city. It does so by promoting new businessesyet small/home ones only, and developing new neighborhoods yet ICT-served work/life communities only. Itslink to regional plans and to the building code which ensures the connectivity in entire city elevate its possibility.The paper also pointed out that city’s urban design strategies are not yet supporting LLCCP toward its goal. Itlacks coordination with teleworkers’ life style, and with spatial system for the entire city. A current design proposaloverlooks teleworkers’ driving habits and their specifi c needs to the types of retails/business-services, for example. Theresult implies that the use of telework in creating sustainable community may have started to be recognized on urbanpolicy level, but that urban/architectural design for it is still behind to be developed.
