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==Software Development==

[[File:058 CARLA computer room.jpg|thumb|left|CARLA Computer Room]]

[[File:056 CARLA digitizer.jpg|thumb|left|CARLA Digitizer]]

[[File:059 CARLA plotter.jpg|thumb|right|CARLA Plotter]]

[[File:060 CARLA plotter.jpg|thumb|right|CARLA Plotter]]

[[File:062 CARLA Drainage.jpg|thumb|right|CARLA Drainage Plot]]

CARLA was a customized software program conceived by [[Beverly Willis]] and written in house by a [[Harvard Graduate School of Design]] student, Jochen Eigen, designed to analyze prospective land parcels for their development potential as large-scale multi-unit complexes. Jochen Eigen wrote the programming scripts that directed CARLA as the managing software to interface a variety of planning unit concepts with a mapping program that could then process a variety of planning proposals against the site’s fixed fields of relevant data. The data was extracted from traditional analog topographical maps soil analysis, and marketing information.

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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 name=":0" /> Land planning decisions were based on the principle−Less construction means less destruction. CARLA’s analyses allowed for less earth-moving for the project, causing less destruction to the environment and lowering overall construction costs.

==Gallery==

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[[File:056 CARLA digitizer.jpg|thumb|left|CARLA Digitizer]]

[[File:059 CARLA plotter.jpg|thumb|right|CARLA Plotter]]

[[File:060 CARLA plotter.jpg|thumb|right|CARLA Plotter]]

[[File:062 CARLA Drainage.jpg|thumb|right|CARLA Drainage Plot]]

</gallery>

==References==

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