Titles and categories scraped by algorithm from on-line sources:
Pattern Number: 126Pattern Title: Something Roughly in the Middle
Category: Buildings
Sub-Category: Paths and squares
Up links: 61 Small Public Squares 67 Common Land 115 Courtyards which Live 121 Path Shape 124 Activity Pockets 125 Stair Seats
Horizontal links: 114 Hierarchy of Open Space 124 Activity Pockets 125 Stair Seats
Down links: 120 Paths and Goals 62 High Places 63 Dancing in the Streets 64 Pools and Streams 69 Public Outdoor Room 71 Still Water 171 Tree Places 243 Sitting Wall
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Summaries of content, keywords and links generated by algorithms. Thank you smmry.com:
Summary 1: SMALL PUBLIC SQUARES, COMMON LAND, COURTYARDS WHICH LIVE, PATH SHAPE all draw their life from the activities around their edges - ACTIVITY POCKETS and STAIR SEATS.
Summary 2: Between the natural paths which cross a public square or courtyard or a piece of common land choose something to stand roughly in the middle: a fountain, a tree, a statue, a clock-tower with seats, a windmill, a bandstand.
Summary 3: We have discussed the fact that people tend to take up positions from which they are protected, partly, at their backs - HIERARCHY OF OPEN SPACE, and the way this fact tends to make the action grow around the edge of public squares - ACTIVITY POCKETS, STAIR SEATS.
Summary 4: The same thing happens in a courtyard or a public square.
Summary 5: Even in the Piazza San Marco, one of the few squares without an obvious center piece, the campanile juts out and creates an off beat center to the two plazas together.
Summary 6: Imagine the open square of a small market town in the country, covered with deep snow and criss-crossed by several roads and paths that, shaped by the traffic, form the natural lines of communication..
Keywords: square center middle path public
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