Paradigm and Site Options

Site selection for a new building, a campus precinct, or a new campus, can be advanced by devising a realistic paradigm solution for a promising site; and then using the model as a "site footprint" to test the pros and cons of alternative sites.

The testing criteria should be defined uniquely for each situation. Typical coverage could include acreage available, land configuration, infrastructure requirements, the benefits and costs of topographic adjustments, microclimate influences, views and vistas, and phasing implications.

We add this example of rational planning to our web page in tribute to the University of Liberia representatives, who after two decades of tragic clan warfare, exacerbated by recent events, look forward to saner days, and the development of higher education as "a healing action" in their now troubled nation.

Richard P. Dober