Podunk, New York – A Village for 200 People, with Beautiful Small Houses at a Price that Ordinary People Can Afford: A New American Dream, Created by a Grass-roots Housing Process

18/03/1994

Project Report

88-page report studying the main characteristics of the village, developing a village plan with ten overall patterns to consider, proposing a new financial approach and growth sequence for the individual houses.

Authors:

Christopher Alexander, Gary Black, James Maguire, Center for Environmental Structure, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Content of

Project

Planned Development of Sixty-five Low Cost Houses 1990 to 1994

Podunk, NY, U.S.A.

Low Cost Housing, Designed , Not built

Client:

Podunk Neighborhood Development - Mr. Osmo Heila

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, Gary Black, James Maguire

Project cost:

Expected project cost: $7,000,000

Project stages:

Generative rules for urban growth process Generative rules for layout on the site by users Implementation process

Proposal for a new community of 200 people in a thirty acre site in Podunk, New York, near Ithaca, a traditional small town where houses to middle and low income families could be provided at a price that ordinary people ...

References

Scientific Research

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

Areas of focus:

Design and Building Process

Guiding idea:

Step by Step Process

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 ...

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