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- Introduction
- Achieving the common good through the creation of a village community. Unwin
- “Pragmatic space integrates man with his natural … environment, . . . ,
existential space makes him belong to a social and cultural totality . .
. .” Norberg-Schulz
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- “Revelation of sacred space makes it possible to obtain a fixed point
and hence to acquire orientation in the chaos of homogeneity, to “found
the world”, and to live in a real sense.” Eliade
- “Man cannot plan the world without designing himself.” Schwartz
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- Built environment is the physical counterpoint of need to build social
community as element of human nature
- Elements
- To be psychologically grounded in location
- Need for identity
- Communicatability of environment
- Neighborhood as the world of children
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- Elements
- Stimulation, exploration and learning
- Safety as precondition for learning
- Need to empathize with parts of the physical and social environment
- Open-ended quality allowing creativity, change, development
- Context of individual and group social history
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- Linear element not used as
path. Boundary. Shore. RR.
Wall. Topography.
- Prominent
- Continuous
- Impenetrable
- Directional
- Edge between two areas
- Uniting seam possible
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- Unwin: Sense of enclosure that
can be built or landscaped. Sets
off neighborhood
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- A route along which a person moves.
Street. Walk. Highway. Transit line
- Concentration and particularity of use
- Broad or narrow
- Façade character
- Pavement character
- Continuity of end points
- Directional quality
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- Wallingford: Narrow to broad paths
Connection to nodes
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- Place into which person enters.
Radiates meaning
- Intensive use
- Distinctive form - focus
- Concentration of theme - epitome
- Juncture of travel
- Decision point of travel
- Landscaping
- Introverted or extroverted
- Association with landmarks
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- Point of reference - but one cannot enter. Façade. Sign. Tree. Art.
- Clear form
- Singular
- Prominent
- Varies widely in scale
- Contrast in environment
- Symbolic
- Sounds
- Smells
- Strengthens paths and nodes
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- Medium to large section of the city
- Building types
- Degree of maintenance
- Topography
- Inhabitants
- Use
- Status
- Thematic unit
- Materials
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- Color
- Details
- Ornaments
- Massing
- Lay-out to street
- Symbol
- Reinforced by paths, nodes, edges, landmarks
- Relation to other districts
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- Religious individuals desire to live in the sacred - that is the real
and objective world to him or her
- Settling a territory and building a home is equivalent to founding a
world
- Village comes into existence around the intersection of heaven and earth
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- Multiplicity of centers not a problem.
Infinite number of points of communication with transcendent
- World is continually purified by the sanctity of the temple.
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- “But there is a deeper level of connection . . . the expressive or
symbolic significance of a place.
To what degree, in the minds of the users, is the form of any
settlement a complex symbol of basic values, life processes, historical
events, fundamental social structure, of the nature of the universe? This is the holistic meaning . . .
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