Over the next fifty years Carleton's physical landscape will change: older buildings will become "heritage", green landscaped areas will increase in value, new buildings will be built, ever-changing patterns of pathways will evolve, and overall the campus will become more integrated into a wider urban community.

	Terrace landscaping between Loeb Building and the Sciences Research Building, 1992.
	Carleton University Library: Special Collections and Archives.

These physical changes are perhaps not as important as our individual mental impressions of this place, and our personal understanding of these relationships which inclines us to fuse ourselves with both the cultural landscape and the institution.

Active participation in making this place "our place", as we would like it to be, requires a degree of understanding of, and interest in, how this cultural landscape has evolved. To that purpose these graphic images attempt to illustrate relationships, explanation, and spirit of place for the next fifty years as well as the past.