A variety of types of public art throughout the City is desirable. Art works may be representational or abstract, two or three dimensional, static or moving. Formats can include sculpture, lighting, murals, performance, features within the ground surface, moving images, etc. Locations especially suitable for public art include gateways, urban spaces, some gable walls and other building surfaces, pedestrian areas in towns, left-over areas of land, circulation space, etc. Public art may be used in strategic locations to contribute to legibility, for example to provide emphasis and to nodes, paths and districts.
Public art can provide new landmarks in the built environment.
The context of the urban environment should form the basis from which public art is created. This does not mean that it has to be imitative of its context, but that it be designed for the specific location in question. These issues will have implications for the physical design of structures and the choice of materials.