ABSTRACT
This chapter begins with a statement about the nature of places as behavior settings and the city as a place and a set of places. Self-consciously designing places to attract desired species and inhibit the presence of the undesired has seldom been a consideration except when applied to humans. In self-consciously designing to attain places with clear identities, it is important for places to be developed with the specific climate and Indigenous vegetation of the context in mind. The much-loved cities and villages of the world have places that act as ‘nodes’ or behavior settings comprising places and links. Historically, the goal of place-making goal has been the creation of neat, salubrious environments containing those behavior settings that the designers believed constituted an efficient, modern way of life and possessing the aesthetic qualities that display that concern. Shaping the city as a place, and the places within it, in particular directions is a highly political, argumentative process.
