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Master Plan for the University of Oregon: Preliminary Design Drawings – Diagnosis for Positive Outdoor Space
2 2nd diagnosis map
Two diagnosis maps. The first drawing includes the whole site, and identifies the places of the campus which are “not working”. The second drawing contains a detailed and complete analysis of a smaller area at the nortwestern corner of the campus; it indicates the places which are “working” harmoniously, and at the same time pinpoints areas in which a particular feature is wrong or missing, and makes concrete proposals of what needs to be done.
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Master Plan for the University of Oregon
1969 to
1971
A complete user-based master plan for the University of Oregon, in Eugene, introducing a new planning theory, which replaced the predominant theory of master plans. It gave primacy to the use of pattern languages and user design, in the continuous ...
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Master Plan for the University of Oregon
1967 to
1973
A complete user-based master plan for the University of Oregon, in Eugene, introducing a new planning theory, which replaced the predominant theory of master plans. It gave primacy to the use of pattern languages and user design, in the continuous ...
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The Unfolding of Public Space and Gardens as Positive Space
Outdoor space is positive when it is shaped just as a room is shaped. It has a contained character, it is bounded by walls, fences, natural vegetation, enclosure of some kind. It looks into other positive spaces, some larger, some ...
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Master Planning as a Dynamic Process - Organic Order and Piecemeal Growth
It is simply not possible to fix today, in a Master Plan, what the environment should be like in the future, and then to steer the piecemeal process of development toward that fixed, imaginary world. Instead, planning and construction will ...