ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the development of the squares, villages and streets where people feel most deeply alive to the development of great courses, units, and lessons. It argues that they develop the same way, not by master-planning, but by long human occupation and regular repair. The mix of buildings points to the absence of a master-plan, although successive planning departments must have worked consistently to preserve the character and tone they desired. Nearly every experienced educator—whether in elementary, secondary or higher education—has endured an educational master-planning nightmare. A long tradition of architects, designers, and writers agree that the problem with master-planned projects is that in their very design they ignore the actual patterns of people’s lives, both inside and outside their homes. Several master planned cities illustrate the verity of the claims about the limitations of master planning and the need to wait and see.
