UNC has a rich and proud landscape heritage. This plan, titled the “Dignity of Restraint,” recognizes UNC’s landscape as the overall connective fabric for the campus, and recommends ways to preserve its exceptional natural features, many of which are remarkably still extant from the University’s first inception in 1795.
The plan focuses on five distinct sites within the University’s historic core that each represents different historic and stylistic eras. Its recommendations seek to preserve, rediscover and reaffirm the historic, scenic, and botanic significance of this landmark campus.