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Section II Campus Landscape Preservation Policies, Patterns, and Treatment Approaches Click here for complete copy of Section II (pdf) The University of Oregon’s guiding documents, particularly the Campus Plan and the Campus Tree Plan, clearly indicate the importance of the campus’s historic open spaces. Eexisting campus policy directs preservation of its identified open-space framework, its historic landscapes, and particularly the campus core. The overall guidelines described in this section lay out the framework for cultural landscape preservation and include suggested policies, patterns, and treatment approaches. 2.0 Site Specific Preservation Plans and Guidelines, provides a more detailed application of these guidelines to specific landscapes. Because a healthy university is a living, growing entity rather than a static representation of the past, any guidelines developed specifically for preservation must allow for expansion of academic capacity. University of Oregon campus policy suggests that the campus remain compact to facilitate administration, pedestrian travel, and intellectual interaction. The university desires to “learn from the successes of these historic open spaces and establish a compatible relationship between them and newer buildings and newer parts of campus to create a cohesive campus environment.”1 Therefore, the goal of the plan is not only to preserve specific historic spaces, but also to provide continuity of the campus character by selectively extending historic landscape characteristics into newly developed spaces as the campus grows. This should be done thoughtfully and with great care to avoid trivializing historic features or detracting from the distinct and contemporary character of new areas. |
The allee and boardwalk leading to Deady Hall from an image near the end of the Inception Era. This walk has since been formally named the "Deady Hall Walk Axis". Interactive Map of Historic Buildings and Landscapes 1.0 Landscape Preservation Guidelines and Description of Historic Resources
2.0 Site Specific Preservation Plans and Guidelines
An abundance of trees, attractively grouped, pathways and lanes between various buildings, shrubbery of different kinds, and always flowers in their appropriate seasons, enable the Oregon campus to have a distinction peculiar to itself. |