Master Plan for the University of Oregon: Photographs of drawing
01/01/1972Images of two colored diagnosis drawings for the University plan development, illustrating the places of the campus which are “not working” and the places which are “working” harmoniously, accompanied with short notes of what is wrong or what needs to be done. The first drawing refers to the whole site, while the second one contains a detailed analysis of a smaller area at the nortwestern corner of the campus, with concrete proposals.
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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 ...
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Dynamics of a Growing Neighborhood - Rules and Patterns for Laying out a Neighborhood
Neighborhoods and communities grow and change over time, and the effect of time on the process of its adaptation on real needs is huge, and leads to types and styles of order quite different from any planned arrangement, based on ...