ABSTRACT
The colloquial and personal tone of this chapter is intentional since the authors feel very strongly that programming is design and that design, and particularly innovative design, is usually personal. The research and design for Martin Luther King Square, a federally subsidized housing project in the Fillmore district of San Francisco, focuses on the specific design of housing units. People who live on a street belong to a great variety of communities ranging from the immediate family at the small end of the scale to the city or state at the other. Loyalty to the street community is frequently reinforced-or diminished-by these other loyalties. In many instances the street is the largest meaningful community to which the resident belongs. Boundary devices, besides buildings, include sharp changes in grade, changes in scale of open space, definition by landscape massing, and barriers of various kinds such as ravines, walls, fences, and so forth. Landmarks establish identity and reinforce a sense of community.
