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PUBLIC OPEN SPACE:
A Carnegie Melon Study found that 67% of all
college bound students make their final decision
based up on the quality of the campus landscape.
The importance of public urban spaces - which
applies to Campus public spaces also - is
expressed by The Word Cities Forum
professionals' comments:
According to Lord Norman Foster, director of Foster
and Partners, London, "The connection between
the buildings is more important than the
buildings themselves. When I think of exciting
cities, I think of infrastructure, not architecture.
The essence of the city is (captured in) the
connections provided by public space. The value
of architecture is about what it contributes to
the public domain.”
Urban Land Institute Chairman Marilyn Taylor said,
“If we think of public space as connecting…with
humanity, and that providing great public spaces
will draw people to cities, we will have been
successful.”
A. Eugene Kohn of Kohn Pederson Fox Associates,
New York City, concurred, citing several public
spaces in New York—the plaza at Rockefeller
Center, recently revitalized Bryant Park, and Central
Park—as key contributors to the welfare of that city’s
residents. “The reality is that the quality of the
city fabric is what is important. Icons are not
what cities are.”
Paul Finch, editor of the Architectural Review,
pointed to the irony of public space as being a key
contributor to a city’s success. Although its value
cannot be increased through real estate
development, “psychologically, it (well-designed
public space) is a city’s greatest asset … start
with a park or water, and you will find your city.”
“For me, the essence of the city is the quality of
life contained in the public space,”
Jean Nouvel, Atelier Jean Nouvel, Paris, said. "Open
space is the key defining characteristic signifying
the extent to which a city values all its residents."
According to ULI Trustee and World Cities Forum
Co-Chairman Sir Stuart Lipton, preservation of the
civic landscape will be a key part of the urban
agenda resulting from the event. “The civic
landscape is at the roots of our society, part of
our humanity. It is both a real and symbolic
space where we reflect and exercise our civil
liberty. We have to put quality into the ordinary.
The totality of civic space is what matters, not
just a few good buildings.”
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A Carnegie Melon Study found that 67% of all
college bound students make their final decision
based up on the quality of the campus landscape.
The importance of public urban spaces - which
applies to Campus public spaces also - is
expressed by The Word Cities Forum
professionals' comments:
According to Lord Norman Foster, director of Foster
and Partners, London, "The connection between
the buildings is more important than the
buildings themselves. When I think of exciting
cities, I think of infrastructure, not architecture.
The essence of the city is (captured in) the
connections provided by public space. The value
of architecture is about what it contributes to
the public domain.”
Urban Land Institute Chairman Marilyn Taylor said,
“If we think of public space as connecting…with
humanity, and that providing great public spaces
will draw people to cities, we will have been
successful.”
A. Eugene Kohn of Kohn Pederson Fox Associates,
New York City, concurred, citing several public
spaces in New York—the plaza at Rockefeller
Center, recently revitalized Bryant Park, and Central
Park—as key contributors to the welfare of that city’s
residents. “The reality is that the quality of the
city fabric is what is important. Icons are not
what cities are.”
Paul Finch, editor of the Architectural Review,
pointed to the irony of public space as being a key
contributor to a city’s success. Although its value
cannot be increased through real estate
development, “psychologically, it (well-designed
public space) is a city’s greatest asset … start
with a park or water, and you will find your city.”
“For me, the essence of the city is the quality of
life contained in the public space,”
Jean Nouvel, Atelier Jean Nouvel, Paris, said. "Open
space is the key defining characteristic signifying
the extent to which a city values all its residents."
According to ULI Trustee and World Cities Forum
Co-Chairman Sir Stuart Lipton, preservation of the
civic landscape will be a key part of the urban
agenda resulting from the event. “The civic
landscape is at the roots of our society, part of
our humanity. It is both a real and symbolic
space where we reflect and exercise our civil
liberty. We have to put quality into the ordinary.
The totality of civic space is what matters, not
just a few good buildings.”
http://www.uli.
Org/Content/NavigationMenu/MeetingsEducation/Foru
ms/WorldCitiesForum1/London2005/Overview/Overvi
ew.htm
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