Master Plan for the University of Oregon: Planning Assumptions and Planning Objectives for Long-Range Campus Planning – Comments and Recommendations of Board’s Staff

05/10/1971

Planning of Works, Memorandum

Detailed comments regarding Supplement A: “University of Oregon Master Plan” and its acceptance that it’s an appropriate summary to be further scrutinized, an implication that there is not concurrence yet on the patterns and diagnosis policies proposed given they are in draft form, as well as other endorsements and suggestions for upgrades in the plan.

Content of

Project

Master Plan for the University of Oregon 1969 to 1971

Eugene, OR, U.S.A.

Master Planning, Educational, Realized , Completed in 1971 and impletented

Client:

University of Oregon - Mr. Robert S. Harris, Dean of the School of Architecture and Chairman of the user planning committee

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, Murray Silverstein, Shlomo Angel, Sara Ishikawa, Denny Abrams

Project stages:

Pattern language for the project by clients and C.E.S. Layout on the site by clients and C.E.S. Generic rules for urban growth process Diagnosis and repair process

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 ...