Dynamics of a Growing Neighborhood – Rules and Patterns for Laying out a Neighborhood

Neighborhoods and communities grow and change over time, and the effect of time on the process of its adaptation on real needs is huge, and leads to types and styles of order quite different from any planned arrangement, based on a master-plan. The dynamic time-dependent process, in which increments of construction will happen over time, creates and maintains relatedness with real situations. When a dynamic process is followed, each time the next step follows existing things --preserves the structure, and creates and maintains relationships-- we get a harmonious living community.
Areas of focus:
Design and Building Process
Guiding idea:
Step by Step Process
Thoughts and Arguments Explored and Developed

The importance of reality: the importance of laying out streets and houses in the land itself, in direct response to its detailed configuration
Feedback, diagnosis and repair
Forms, when they are generated in time, not designed at the drawing board, display qualities of life, and do have life
Simulations and reality: Simulations are essential tools for testing new rules and processes capable of generating a coherent and complex morphology of space. Only then, is one ready to apply the process to real land, through the actions of real people.
Step by step construction

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