Course Material

City Building: Models for the Formation of Larger Urban Wholes

01/01/1989

Student Work, Doctoral Dissertation Draft

Authors:

Hansjoachim Neis, University of California Berkeley, College of Environmental Design, Department of Architecture, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Content of

Academic Course

Advisor in the Ph.D. Program in Architecture 1989

University Program:

Ph.D. in Architecture

Instructors:

Christopher Alexander

Enrolled students:

Hansjoachim Neis

Heading the committee for the Ph.D. Qualifying Examination and chairing the committee for approving the Doctoral Dissertation submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Architecture.

References

Scientific Research

The Process of Urban Design and the Formation of Larger Urban Wholes

Areas of focus:

Design and Building Process

Guiding idea:

Structure Preserving Transformations

Theoretical basis and key assumptions for the process of urban growth, tested initially in the San Francisco Waterfront experimental project in 1979, in which the formation of larger urban wholes was highlighted as an overriding rule. This process was further ...