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Five principles for design and programming
Programming the public realm
Design parameters
Harbor gardens - A concept
A visual thesaurus

-Art and landscape
-Cultural institutions
-Day and night
-Green building
-Glass houses
-Nature
-Outdoor program
-Seasons
-Transparency
-Unprogrammed
-Viewpoints
-Water

A visual thesaurus: Water

The following linked images are offered without text as visual references, as a thesaurus or storehouse of urban landscape concepts that have been realized in cities throughout the US, Europe and Japan. The purpose is to prompt a discussion of urban landscape as multidimensional: a layering of form and program with environmental and social purpose, defined and developed by users, over time.

Information for this section was provided by the Artery Business Committee.