The City as a Mechanism for Sustaining Human Contact

Five pages including images with descriptions and page layout instructions for the article illustrations.

Two images, the first depicting the site plan of an arrangement of houses organized around a court system concept, and thesecond the floor plans of various types of the courtyard houses.

Three images of a model illustrating a single concrete configuration of dwellings in which all twelve geometric relations are simultaneously present; the first is an aerial view of the hill,and the other two are close-up views illustrating various geometrical characteristics.

Diagram illustrating the social interactions produced in a modern city, which lead to alienation and ‘the autonomy withdrawal syndrome’ in people.

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 ...