The City as a Mechanism for Sustaining Human Contact

Research on Cognitive Psychology, in the Joint Center for Urban Studies, M.I.T. & Harvard University and in the Center for Cognitive Studies, Harvard University.

Christopher Alexander states in the "Notes on the Synthesis of Form" that the object of design is form, and consequently the problem of design is to fit the form with its context. Form is the part of the world which ...

The prevailing idea being the search for goodness of fit between form and its context, Alexander postulated that in today's selfconscious design process, in order to attain a good design there must be an underlying correspondence between the structure of ...

Christopher Alexander presented his research work on “The City as a Mechanism for Sustaining Human Contact”, published on 1966 by the Center for Planning and Development Research, Institute of Urban and Regional Development, University of California, Berkeley.