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Collectively, these college campuses span a broad continuum of time, and old and new designed landscapes may sit side by side on a single campus. The landscapes represent a diversity of work by enlightened patrons, preeminent architects, landscape architects and planners. Despite a great diversity of design and regional nuances, many of the oldest buildings of these campus plans were oriented around significant landscape spaces that are "named" places: a quad, a green, a courtyard, or a lawn.
Yet, these spaces, so integral to the meaning and experience of the campuses,
are today endangered by both poor maintenance practices as well as by
a half-century of destruction and a-historic redesign in the name of "progress."
Something must be done to reverse this trend.
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