Making Sense of Place Film Series A documentary film and educational outreach project launched by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Making Sense of Place – Phoenix: The Urban Desert
A Sense of Place – Planning and Making Communities
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| Quotes From the Film | Commentary by John Meunier | Lincoln Institute Publications | Lincoln Institute Courses, Conferences and Seminars |
Quotes From the Film
"What's happening is we don't like what it all adds up to being. And so now we're beginning to say alright, 'Is there a way that we can not only have what we want as individuals, but that we can have what we want collectively?'"
--Vern Swaback, Architect"How does place get made? It gets made through this dialectical process - between the sense of the larger community need and the sense of the individual right. And I think this is a wonderful laboratory to see those processes working - and making sense of them, understanding them. And then, of course, ultimately, if you understand them, maybe you can actually massage them a little, maybe you can actually make them work for you." --John Meunier, Dean, College of Architecture and Environmental Design, Arizona State University, 1987-2002
"As we speak here today, there are thousands of people who are coming here with the same dreams, the same ambitions. And those folks change this place and change the values and direction of this place. And it's still a city that's in its adolescence and it's going through huge growing pains." --Alfredo Gutierrez, Arizona State Senator, 1972-1986Commentary by John Meunier
The Compact City as an Alternative |