GUIDING QUESTION

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^{A close friend of Isidore I. Rabi (1898), Nobel-prize winner for physics, once asked him: “Why
did you become a scientist, rather than a doctor, or laywer or businessman, like the other immigrant
kids in the neighborhood?” Isidore’s answer was profoud, another friend, Donald Sheff, wrote to the New York Times: ''My mother made me a scientist without ever intending it. Every other mother in
Brooklyn would ask her child after school: 'So? Did you learn anything today?' But not my mother.
She always asked me a different question. 'Izzy,' she would say, 'did you ask a good question today?'
That difference - asking good questions - made me become a scientist'.}
Anecdote largely copied from Sheff (1988) himself, as sent in to the newspaper in memory of Rabi, who had passed away that month. Refered to in Breimer 2014, p. 489. Preparing for rapid urbanisation in the land market of the peri urban interface (PUI). Archcairo, 6th international conference. The thinkpiece and talk discuss the application of paradigm shifts in this specific technical (peri)urban field. Exploring the big idea of anticipating urban sprawl (instaed of curing it).

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Higher Education, Constructive Alignment, Modular, Technical, Educational Design.

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