PLG 320- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 34 pages long!)
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Typologies of public spaces: parks, central park, neighbourhood parks, malls, plazas and squares(most common, nathan philips square, streets, roads, storm water management areas, greenbelts, waterfront, waterfront trail, trails, farmers market. Use itplace regularly or by choice: flexible design, must be built in a manner that resounds to change, seasonal strategy. Challenges to public spaces: best locations often highest land value, public resources limited, most important land use but lowest market value, lack of cultural value/understanding, sprawl: the public real done cheap and dirty. Increasing importance of the individual/private versus the common good/public. Prospects of public spaces: urban design profession continues to garner attention, growing media attention. Incentives programs for public art and design excellence. The social life of small urban spaces: sit able space street sun food, water trees. Slide 3: moved away from the master contract, lynch was also innovative in his use of graphic notation to link abstsct ideas of urban structure with the human.
