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We take our goals, with some alteration, from those laid out for the Journal Places which has co-sponsored some of our previous programs: ~To shift the debate about sites, development proposals, and environmental design from the discussion of buildings, landscapes and art projects as singular, visual objects to the consequences they have in the environments that surround our lives and foster particular behavior.
~To cross the lines of established professions and topical categories. CulturePlaces is intended to offer a forum to explore the views of designers, developers, film makers and other artists, scholars, journalists, travel writers, public officials, and citizens to everybody, really, who creates places, manages places, studies and reports on society and place and, most importantly, experiences places. ~To explore the multiple meanings of place, including cyberspaces, and the multiple ways that ideas about place are put in service in a pluralistic society and diverse world. CulturePlaces seeks to cultivate dialogue among differing modes for understanding, operating in and celebrating the significance of the built and natural environment. ~To focus attention on the often neglected public realm. CulturePlaces considers how perceptions about place can be a catalyst for understanding and helping to create neighborhoods, parks, streets, workplaces, infrastructure and other facilities and spaces that sustain our civic and social lives. ~To inform the way citizens and professionals shape and are shaped by the environment. CulturePlaces will examine how approaches to cultivating spaces can support the well being of individuals, our communities, and through example, the larger society. |
Here are some web sites that expand on the design element of these objectives....
Click on ~Sample Chapter~ link.
http://gartenberg.com/planblog/
http://archidose.blogspot.com/
http://www.designobserver.com/
http://www.cnu.org/ [Congress on New Urbanism]
