Sense of Place—Fritz Steele (1981)

I. The Spirit of Place: Finding the “Blue Haze”

A. Strong location (which means strong boundaries)

B. Geographic distinctiveness

C. Scale & Proportion

D. Rich images

II. Making Places: Influencing Settings

A. Criteria for making better settings

i. Choices & options

ii. Reinforcing patterns & sequences (spatial & temporal)

iii. Rich material for fantasy & memory (sensory cues)

iv. Sense of identity (“This must be the place!”)

v. Highlighting personal awareness

vi. Highlighting opportunities

vii. Appropriate scale

viii. Active vitality

B. Methods of making “Places”

i. Creating new settings

1. Site choice

2. Design for human needs (Maslow?)

3. Connected growth

4. Built-in flexibility

5. Incorporating fragments

6. Redesigning the systems of social interaction

7. Localized names

ii. Reworking existing settings

1. Rehabilitation & reuse

2. Diagnosis & tinkering

iii. Not “unmaking” places