出版社：eScholarship repository, University of California
摘要：I was at Notre Dame last week to
give a lecture about early medieval
England: surviving buildings and
landscapes, patterns of use and reuse,
Iron Age earthworks and Roman
spolia, later additions to Anglo-Saxon
churches, and the like. In the midst
of it, to escape the overly planned
campus of the university, I spent
some time wandering around downtown
South Bend. It’s the classic
dying downtown of a once prosperous
American industrial town. It has
its monuments to that past prosperity:
a 1920s Art Deco fortress of a
bank building that still has elevator
operators; a twelve-story offi ce
tower, thin and elegant as a knife
blade, from the same era, with an
architect’s offi ce on its top fl oor, like
an aerie. Buildings built with a sense
of their place in the world, but now
forlorn in their under-use. On the
south edge of town, stretching like
a protective city wall, is the abandoned
Studebaker works—a fi ve- or
six-story brick factory that makes the
horizontal as powerful and dynamic
as the vertical thrust of a great skyscraper.
关键词：places, placemaking,
architecture, environment, landscape, urban design, public realm, planning,
design, Nicholas Howe, speaking, letter
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