Article: "Home Space: Fences and Neighbors".
READING THE TEXT
1. Explain in your own words why Greenbie claims that "the structuring of transitional spaces between private and public places, allowing for different degrees of publicness and privateness, is important to all".
2. Why does Greenbie see fences as inclusive structural features, not exclusive ones?
3. What does psychologist J. J. Gibson mean by "haptic system"?
4. Explain what Greenbie means when he contrasts houses that sit "on" space with those that are "in" the landscape.
5. What significance does Greenbie ascribe to thresholds, porches, and other entranceways, on the one hand, and to backyards, on the other?
6. What does architect Oscar Newman mean by "defensible space"?