Designers of the environment, including architects, landscape architects and urban designers, often include as one of their goals, the realization of a sense of place. A "place" may be defined as being meaningful, congruent with a purpose. A "sense of place" suggests that the people experiencing or perceiving a place, sense that place through hearing, sight, smell, touch, or memory that one is there, in it, centered or in balance with the place. One becomes aware, perceives, understands or feels a sense of place. This book explores the variety of elements of the environment ranging from historic landmarks and climate to art and culture as well as other aspects considered in the designing of places.
About the Author: As a nationally recognized educator and urban designer who received the Topaz Medallion from the American Institute of Architects and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture for cumulative contributions to architecture and education in 2001, Lee Copeland practices in an evolving laboratory of learning while shaping civic places and campuses throughout the country. His urban design experience includes Seattle's Belltown and Lake Union Plans, the Seattle Civic Center Plan, Pacific Northwest Aquarium in Seattle Master Plan in collaboration with Terry Ferrell & Partners London, and Seattle's Sound Transit Light Rail Stations Area Planning. Lee's Campus Planning & Master Plan work includes the Edges Plan for the University of Pennsylvania when in Philadelphia, and while with his own firm Weinstein/Copeland, The Indiana University Edge Plan, The University of Washington Master Plan, and the Duke University Master Plan. He influences architecture, urban design and education-reinforced by his profound experiences both in practice and academia. The former Chair of the Philadelphia Planning Commission, Lee has more than 40 years of experience engaging communities in public processes that arrive at designs incorporating users' interests. As Dean and Paley Professor of Architecture and Urban Planning at the Graduate School of Fine Arts at the University of Pennsylvania (now the School of Design) and Dean of the College of Architecture and Urban Planning (now the School of the Built Environments), he shaped the core curriculum for architects, landscape architects, city planners and urban designers as a powerful leader for colleagues and students. His insightful work ripples across the world and honors cities and its inhabitants as they live, learn and thrive.