Archives for: September 2009
Rediscovering the City Center by William Whyte
Some of my engineering background surfaced when I read a review of Rediscovering the city center. Of course my thoughts always lean toward Davis College and how we can go about making this a better place. One thing the campus lacks is a center. A community place, the highest trafficked place, a place where students, faculty, and staff naturally congregate. Where is that? Where should, could that be?
Whyte has an interesting section comparing the inner city, the busiest place in the city, with the ancient Greek agora: the market. But it was more, small business of all kinds, meeting places, "coffee" shops, exciting, crowded, dynamic.
Davis College needs such a place. Where should it be?
