Newsletter SUMMER 2006

Letter from the Chair
Greetings, campus landscape architects, planners, and friends. I would like to take this opportunity to introduce myself. My name is Larry Porter and I am currently the senior landscape architect with the Rutgers University Office of Facilities and Capital Planning.
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SUPPLEMENTING MASTER PLANS WITH DESIGN GUIDELINES
Long range master plans are intended to guide the growth and development of a campus. Such plans are broad and have a long time horizon, usually 15 to 20 years into the future, so how can they be implemented on
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THE SUCCESSFUL USE OF DESIGN GUIDELINES IN CAMPUS SETTINGS
Efforts to effectively establish design guidelines to be applied to the planning process across campuses seem to meet with a range of results. A clear understanding upfront of what is expected from such guidelines is critical to their success. It
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LINKS TO A SAMPLING OF CAMPUS DESIGN GUIDELINES
University of Pennsylvania, William & Mary, UC Berkeley, U Mass-Amherst, University of Nebraska at Lincoln, University of Virginia, Florida A&M University.
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INTELLIGENT DESIGN
Across the campus, the plastic sheathing that protected construction sites from winter is coming down. As it does, members of the community are getting their first looks at a range of almost completed facilities projects. To the north and west
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WINTER 2006 NEWSLETTER REQUEST 'ON THE BOARDS'
For the next edition of the Campus Planning and Design Newsletter, the focus will be on our membership and what projects are in the works relating to the world of campus planning and design. Have you been working on a
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