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'''Computerized Approach to Residential Land Analysis''', known as '''CARLA''', was a proprietary software program developed by the architectural firm Willis & Associates of [[San Francisco]], [[California]], in 1971.<ref name=":0" />
==Overview==
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In 1974, Willis & Associates, Inc., was awarded an architectural and engineering contract for the design and plan of the Aliamanu Valley Community for Military Housing in Honolulu, Hawaii. The project was a $110 million complex of 11,500 inhabitants, residing in 525 buildings on a 524-acre site. It was the first joint family housing venture in Hawaii. The community consisted of an Army-Navy complex of 2,600 family apartments: 1,600 Army apartments, 800 Navy apartments, and 200 for the Marine Corps.
Though CARLA had been previously used in designing multi-housing complexes on challenging sites, the Aliamanu site presented a greater challenge due to a non-active volcanic crater floor in a one hundred year old flood plain of clay.<ref name=":0">{{cite journal|last1=McGrath|first1=David J.|title=A-E Computerized Path to Large-Scale Housing|journal=Engineering News Record|date=November 1976|pages=Cover Story}}</ref> Fundamental to the development of an economical land-use plan for Aliamanu was the firm’s belief that the “best site plans are those that least disturb the land, that preserve the natural drainage channels and minimize need to cut and fill.”<ref
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