Book Chapter

Chapter 8. People Forming a Collective Vision of their Neighborhood, 4 / Start of a Collective Vision in Fort Lauderdale

Book title:

The Nature of Order – An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe.
Book Three – A Vision of a Living World

Pages:

262-264

Content of

Book

The Nature of Order - An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe. Book Three - A Vision of a Living World 2005

Authors:

Christopher Alexander

Publisher:

The Center for Environmental Structure Publishing, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

No of pages:

697 pp

“A Vision of a Living World”, the third volume of “The Nature of Order” series, presents, for the first time, a full spectrum of Alexander’s and CES built and unbuilt works. The book describes hundreds of buildings, plans, neighborhoods, drawings, ...

References

Scientific Research

Participation of the Users in the Design Process - Testing and Applying Pattern Languages and Layout Rules

Areas of focus:

Design and Building Process

Guiding idea:

Participation of Users

Christopher Alexander believed that people have a right to determine and shape their environment. The genuine and wholehearted involvement of the users in the shaping of their buildings contributes positively to good architecture. It gives life, identity and personal qualities ...

Projects

Reconstruction of an Urban Neighborhood 1996

Progresso, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, U.S.A.

Neighborhood Planning, Designed , Completed in 1996

Client:

City of Ft. Lauderdale

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, Saul Pichardo, Chris Andrews, Shawn Bradbury

Project stages:

Generative rules for urban growth process Generative rules for the neighborhood layout process Implementation process

Plan for the rejuvenation of the Flagler Heights/Progresso community, an urban neighborhood in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, a congested slum-like, unprepossessing and disordered quite large area of the city, about half a mile by three-quartes of a mile. The project proposal ...