Master planning observations

From the planning site:

Master plan neighborhoods include:
Core Campus
North End
West End
Arts & Athletics

Campus-wide themes to be addressed include:
Campus Identity and Architecture
Development Capacity, Building Reuse, and Building Expansions
Housing & Campus Life
Landscape and Stormwater
Circulation, Transportation, and Parking

The process page says that the participants will start developing the framework plan during the fall of 2013.

Beyer Blinder Belle’s 2008 plan for Princeton is worth looking at. (Incidentally, what looks like Princeton’s prior plan of 1993-1996 was produced by Machado & Silvetti.) General observations on Princeton made after skimming the plan:

  • Princeton and Dartmouth are surprisingly similar in size. Princeton has 5,100 undergrads and 2,500 professional and graduate students in four schools: engineering, architecture, public affairs, and a graduate college. Dartmouth has 4,100 undergraduates and 1,900 professional and graduate students in four schools: engineering, medicine, business, and group of graduate programs.
  • Princeton’s compact, uniform block of a site emphasizes how much of Dartmouth is made up of reserved landscapes, whether green, park, cemetery, or slope. Princeton also has a vast unused land bank on the other side of the narrow lake that forms its south edge.
  • Princeton’s ten-minute walking radius is centered on the student center, not the main library, central quad, or old main building.

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