The Center for Applied Transect Studies (CATS) is a Miami-based organization that promotes the understanding of the built environment in relation to the natural environment through the rural-to-urban transect planning methodology. CATS supports interdisciplinary research, publication, tools, and training for the design, coding, building, and documentation of resilient transect-based communities.
Committed to principles such as walkable and transit-connected communities, comprehensive zoning reform, and affordable housing, CATS aims to encourage context-based thoroughfare design, income diversity, and regional food production. With a focus on reducing environmental impacts and costs of infrastructure development, CATS also emphasizes passive climatic response in building and urban design, as well as the repair of unsustainable sprawl patterns. Additionally, CATS provides a free image bank, the Transect Collection, which showcases professionally photographed and organized exemplary elements of urbanism.
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