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I’d guess that if you couldn’t find a good description of “progressive urbanism” then there probably isn’t one to be found. It sounds like it could be any urban idea that is deemed progressive. If that’s true, it would have no particular relationship to New Urbanism or any other idea, I suppose. The term and idea of “landscape urbanism” has a much more contemplated and documented history. It isn’t as specific as new urbanism though. Landscape urbanism was recently coined (by Waldheim) to describe the idea that approaching the built environment as a “landscape” (rather than architecture or anything else) is most suitable. Charles Waldheim and James Corner can obviously describe it much better than I. For anyone who hasn’t read into it, I’d strongly suggest The Landscape Urbanism Reader (Waldheim) and Recovering Landscapes (Corner) to start with.

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It looks like there is very little 3d modeling done in those two images. The second one may just be a hand drawing with photoshop trees, texture and tone. For this, making a sketchup model, printing it, drawing over it to achieve correct line weights and then using photoshop for the rest is the easiest method. I’d say you’ll be best to learn both programs, more or less. Rhino is another program that is far better than sketchup and along the same lines as 3dmax, but it is easier to use. It’s main drawback is the lack of a terrain-from-contours modeling tool. In the end, you’ll want to use certain programs for certain tasks. Don’t limit yourself to one, especially not just sketchup.

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