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Winter 1974Development of a planning process for the City of Berkeley in which individual neighborhoods had the responsibility for their own improvement through a process based on the use of patterns at a very local scale .
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A New Approach to Design and Construction Management
A new kind of design/construction/management process, especially for large projects, is required, which will allow the building to be conceived, designed and built so that it comes to life. Below are the ground rules of such a process, already tried ...
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Development of first Patterns and Pattern Languages
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 ...
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Master Planning as a Dynamic Process - Organic Order and Piecemeal Growth
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 ...
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People Rebuilding Berkeley: Photographs of drawings
01/01/1974
Site plan sketch showing repair of the streets of a Berkeley neighborhood in a 10-year period.
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People Rebuilding Berkeley: Photographs of drawings
01/01/1974
Neighborhood simplified maps depict the three stages of the growth a neighborhood, as it develops during the period of ten years: The 1st stage depicts the neighborhood at the beginning, the 2nd stage after four years of development and the ...
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People Rebuilding Berkeley: Photographs of drawings
01/01/1974
Sketch depicting the feeling of a node of activity integrated with a pedestrian, green street .
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