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Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 11:09:28 -0400
From: Terry Calhoun ?splendid@xxxxxxxxx?

This new list, co-sponsored by the Society for College and University Planning
(SCUP) and the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA), has its own
"home page": http://www.scup.org/communities/open-space.htm, where you can read 

more about it and subscribe using a Web-based form linked to that home page. In 

the words written by SCUP volunteer leader Bill Flynn to describe the topical
focus of the new list:

"An institution's open space system is a rich tapestry that binds a campus
together. The delicate balance of open space and buildings is what defines an
institution's character and identity and makes the
American campus such a unique and distinctive landscape. Yet on many campuses,
the pressure to expand and find locations for new footprints is putting open
space at ever increasing risk. As campus stewards should
we be worried? Of course, but not distraught, for as Albert Einstein noted, "In 

the middle of difficulty lies opportunity." The challenge that lies before us 
is
to define those opportunities and exploit them when they are presented. It some 

cases, opportunity to preserve, renew and even create new open space may lie
hidden in the very forces that
threaten it.

This email discussion list therefore, is intended to serve as a forum to help 
us
discover those opportunities. Hopefully it will serve as a vehicle for spirited 

debate and discussion as to the evolving role of open space on our campuses.
There are a myriad of questions to be answered. What defines open space? How do 

we assign it value? Who owns it and what rules and expectations should govern
activity within it? These and other questions need to be thoughtfully addressed 

as we accommodate the evolution of the American campus in the twenty-first
century. So, ask a question or voice an opinion, but please come and join us in 

what promises to be an exciting and informative forum."

Check out the new list's home page here
- http://www.scup.org/communities/open-space.htm - where you will find
links to a Web-based form that will let you subscribe.

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