COMMUNITY       STEP 2: IDENTIFY MAJOR POINTS OF CONNECTION TO SURROUNDINGS

Find existing nodes in boundary streets that would be good places to enter the community. These nodes may include market places, road junctions, public squares, and other points of intensity or higher density. The most important of such nodes—or the one that people feel the strongest about as a possible entrance-- will be the location of the main entrance to the community. When you are standing in the middle of the site, as you look toward the perimeter, one or two of the possible “connection points” will impress themselves on you more strongly than others, and will seem like the most natural places you want to go to, or to be connected to. These are especially important, and should be identified above others, as potential connections. Mark all of these places with stakes on the land, and with marks on the site map. (Each of these places will have a minor center inside the boundary).

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