Article

The City as a Mechanism for Sustaining Human Contact, with ‘Comments on Alexander’

01/01/1967

Book Contribution, Reprint

Authors:

Christopher Alexander

Published in:

Environment for Man: The Next Fifty Years, pp. 60-109, 284-285, 292-297

Editor:

William R. Ewald Jr.

Publisher:

Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN, U.S.A.

Contents

Correspondence

"The City as a Mechanism for Sustaining Human Contact" article: Having found a partial photocopy of the article, request for information about the book that contains it, perhaps titled "Environment for Men", as well as for more literature on the topic 04/10/1987

Article Publication, Impact on Readers

Sender:

J.P. Monro, Cape Elizabeth, ME, U.S.A.

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 ...

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