Planned Development of Sixty-five Low Cost Houses: Notes and sketches

27/08/1991

Planning of Works, Notes and Sketches

Rough sketch including the larger area of the property and the smaller adjacent property bought as Christopher Alexander suggested, with notes on clarifications and concerns requiring immediate answers by Alexander.

Authors:

Osmo Heila, Podunk Neighborhood Development, Trumansburg, NY, U.S.A.

Content of

Project 1 Items

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 ...