Article

Parking Park Can Park In Parking Place

25/04/1974

Article

Authors:

Marilyn Waterman

Published in:

The Daily Californian, pp. 20

Publisher:

Independent Berkeley Students Publishing Company Inc., Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

References

Scientific Research

Development of first Patterns and Pattern Languages

Areas of focus:

Design and Building Process

Guiding idea:

Pattern Languages in Practice

The first patterns were developed in 1967 by a group of people working together with Christopher Alexander in the Center for Environmental Structure. Between 1968 and 1976 the first pattern languages were developed and tested for particular projects undertaken by ...
Master Planning as a Dynamic Process - Organic Order and Piecemeal Growth

Areas of focus:

Design and Building Process

Guiding idea:

Step by Step Process

It is simply not possible to fix today, in a Master Plan, what the environment should be like in the future, and then to steer the piecemeal process of development toward that fixed, imaginary world. Instead, planning and construction will ...

Projects

People Rebuilding Berkeley 1974

Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Neighborhood Planning, Designed , Proposal completed in 1974

Client:

City of Berkeley Master Plan Revision Committee

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, Howard Davis, Halim Abdelhalim

Project stages:

Pattern language for the project by C.E.S. Generic rules for urban growth process

Neighborhood-controlled planning process, in which the energy of the people of the town is liberated, and join together in the creation, growth and constant repair of the common land. It proposes the local neighborhood as the fundamental unit for a ...

Academic Courses

Reports

People Rebuilding Berkeley - The Self-Creating Life of Neighborhoods 20/11/1974

Project, Project Report

Authors:

Christopher Alexander, Howard Davis, Halim Abdelhalim, Center for Environmental Structure, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

201-page report which includes a 3-page “Memorandum to the Master Plan Revision Committee, City of Berkeley”. It demonstrates an early approach to the idea of piecemeal development applied to the organic fabric of streets in a town. It proposes the ...