Correspondence

Nagoya Forum for Living Environment: Initial draft letter by Christopher Alexander to the organizer of the Forum, which besides confirming Alexander’s acceptance of the invitation to speak at the May 26 Forum, comments on the way the meeting has been organized and makes suggestions on how to strengthen the reality of actual projects, this being one of the main goals of the meeting.

27/04/1990

Event Planning

Content of

Public Event 1 Items

Nagoya Forum for Living Environment 26/05/1990

Nagoya, Japan

Conference, Professional Event

Christopher Alexander was invited to give the keynote speech; his speech titled “Low or High” was on the Shiratori plan, a housing project in Nagoya in which the required density was achieved with low-rise instead of high-rise buildings.

References

Projects 1 Items

Shiratori Plan - Low-Rise High-Density Housing 1990 to 1991

Nagoya, Japan

Neighborhood Planning, Designed , Not built

The Shiratori Plan in Nagoya asked for an integrated neighborhood for 550 families at an overall density of 80 families per acre, on a 6.24 acres site, with an average area of 72 square meters per unit and total area ...

Correspondence 1 Items

Nagoya Forum for Living Environment: Response with extensive comments by Hosoi to a draft letter written by Christopher Alexander and forwarded to him for checking. The draft letter addressed to the organizer of the May 26 Forum, comments on the way the meeting has been organized and makes suggestions on how to strengthen the reality of actual projects, this being one of the main goals of the meeting. It is on this subject that Alexander seeks advice from Hosoi. 08/05/1990

Public Event, Event Planning