A City is not a Tree

01/05/1986

Article, Reprint

Authors:

Christopher Alexander

Published in:

Zone, Vol. 1/2, pp. 129-149

Publisher:

Ur zone Inc., New York, NY, U.S.A.

Contents

Correspondence

"A City Is not a Tree" article: Request to publish the essay in "Design after Modernism", an anthology for Thames & Hudson, with proposed payment; attachment with Table of Contents of the anthology 10/01/1987

Article Publication, Permission Request

Sender:

John Thackara, London, U.K.

Recipient:

Christopher Alexander, Center for Environmental Structure , Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Medium:

Letter

References

Scientific Research

Good Fit between Form & Context

Areas of focus:

Quality and Values

Guiding idea:

Goodness of Fit

Christopher Alexander states in the "Notes on the Synthesis of Form" that the object of design is form, and consequently the problem of design is to fit the form with its context. Form is the part of the world which ...
Decomposition Process and the Diagrams

Areas of focus:

Structure of Space

Guiding idea:

Early Mathematical Approach

The prevailing idea being the search for goodness of fit between form and its context, Alexander postulated that in today's selfconscious design process, in order to attain a good design there must be an underlying correspondence between the structure of ...

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A City is not a Tree Part 1 01/04/1965

Publication, Article

Authors:

Christopher Alexander

Published in:

Architectural Forum, Vol. 122, No. 1, pp. 58-62

Publisher:

Urban America Inc., New York, NY, U.S.A.
A City is not a Tree Part 2 01/05/1965

Publication, Article

Authors:

Christopher Alexander

Published in:

Architectural Forum, Vol. 122, No. 2, pp. 58-61

Publisher:

Urban America Inc., New York, NY, U.S.A.
A City is not a Tree 01/02/1966

Publication, Article, Reprint

Authors:

Christopher Alexander

Published in:

Design, pp. 46-55
A City is not a Tree 01/01/1967

Publication, Article, Reprint, Translation in Dutch

Authors:

Christopher Alexander

Published in:

Stichting Werkgemeenschappen Bergeijk, No. 2, pp. 77-108

Publisher:

Bergeijk Working Communities Foundation, Netherlands

Language:

Dutch
A City is not a Tree 01/01/1967

Publication, Article, Reprint, Translation in Icelandic

Authors:

Christopher Alexander

Published in:

Hefti Birtingur, No. 13, pp. 50-72

Publisher:

Birtingur, Reykjavik, Iceland

Language:

Icelandic
A City is not a Tree 01/03/1967

Publication, Article, Reprint, Translation in Hebrew

Authors:

Christopher Alexander

Published in:

Journal TVAI, Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 64-69

Language:

Hebrew
Une Ville n'est un Arbre / A City is not a Tree 01/11/1967

Publication, Article, Reprint, Translation in French

Authors:

Christopher Alexander

Published in:

Architecture, Mouvement, Continuite, No. 161, pp. 3-11

Publisher:

Société des Architectes Diplômés du Gouvernement (SADG), Paris, France

Language:

French
La Ciudad no es un Árbol / A City is not a Tree 01/09/1968

Publication, Article, Reprint, Translation in Spanish

Authors:

Christopher Alexander

Published in:

Guadernos Summa - Nueva Vision - Christopher Alexander: Nuevas Ideas sobre Diseno Urbano - Special Issue, Vol. 1, No. 9, pp. 20-30

Publisher:

Registro Nacional de la Propiedad Intelectual, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Language:

Spanish
A City is not a Tree 01/03/1968

Publication, Article, Reprint

Authors:

Christopher Alexander

Published in:

Approach, pp. 26-27
A City is not a Tree 01/01/1968

Publication, Article, Reprint

Authors:

Christopher Alexander

Published in:

Ekistics, Vol. 23, pp. 344-348

Publisher:

Athēnaïko Kentro Oikistikēs - Doxiadis Associates, Athens, Greece
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Publication, Book Contribution, Reprint, Translation in Spanish

Authors:

Christopher Alexander

Published in:

Tres Aspectos de Matematica Y Diseño, pp. 19-60

Editor:

Tusquets Editor

Publisher:

Ediciones de Bolsillo, Barcelona, Spain

Language:

Spanish
A City is not a Tree 01/01/1969

Publication, Book Contribution, Reprint

Authors:

Christopher Alexander

Published in:

Architecture Anthology, pp. 580-590

Editor:

Jeffrey Cook

Publisher:

Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, U.S.A.
La Ciudad no es un Árbol / A City is not a Tree 01/07/1969

Publication, Article, Reprint, Translation in Spanish

Authors:

Christopher Alexander

Published in:

Actualidades Tecnico Cientificas Arquitectura, No. 2, pp. 54-82

Language:

Spanish
La Ciudad no es un Árbol / A City is not a Tree 01/01/1971

Publication, Book Contribution, Reprint, Translation in Spanish

Authors:

Christopher Alexander

Published in:

La Estructura Del Medio Ambiente - Christopher Alexander, pp. 17-55

Editor:

Tusquets Editor

Publisher:

Ediciones de Bolsillo, Barcelona, Spain

Language:

Spanish
A City is not a Tree 01/01/1993

Publication, Book Contribution, Reprint

Authors:

Christopher Alexander

Published in:

Architecture Culture 1943-1968: A Documentary Anthology, pp. 379-388

Editor:

Joan Ockman

Publisher:

Rizzoli - Columbia Books of Architecture , New York, NY, U.S.A.

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