City Projects
Making Places
Fritz Steele (The Sense of Place, 1981) talks about "making
places by influencing settings." According to him, a good place must have:
- Choices & options
- Reinforcing patterns &
sequences
- Rich material for fantasy
and memory
- Sense of identity
- Highlighting personal
awareness
- Highlighting opportunities
- Appropriate scale
- Active vitality
You can do this, he says, in any of three ways:
- Creating new settings
- Reworking existing settings
- Not unmaking existing places
Describe
a new setting on campus for a function of your choice
Last Updated
1/10/04 by Tony
Filipovitch