City Projects

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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