Professor:
Shannon Criss

Defining Community

ARCH 681 Defining Community (3). This course explores how a neighborhood is
sustainable, or is not. Imbedded in our built landscape are constructs, which once
revealed, offer us insight into a community’s values and underlying intentions. We
will engage neighborhoods in Lawrence, Kansas, and other community neighborhoods.
This seminar course will provide a format for discussion and testing observations
of patterns in neighborhoods. Our intent will be to describe the detailed
patterns for neighborhoods, houses, and gardens, thereby increasing an understanding
of how people inform and are informed by their neighborhoods. This
course will include a series of lectures, required reading with written responses,
visits to a variety of neighborhoods and the development of research projects.

Selected Projects:
Nicole Hipp (7mb PDF)