Correspondence

Housing Plan for Guasare New Town: RE: Center for Environmental Structure, Berkeley, California. Request for status regarding the letter forwarded to recipient from Betancourt, Cortido & Asociados

18/05/1984

Design Matters, Transmittal

Sender:

Michael L. Meyers, Attorneys at Law - Coblentz, Cahen, McCabe & Breyer, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.

Recipient:

Arturo Marcano Baez, Caracas, Venezuela

Medium:

Letter

Content of

Project

Housing Plan for Guasare New Town 1981 to 1983

Guasare, Maracaibo, Venezuela

Neighborhood Planning, Designed , Completed in May-1983

Client:

"Corpozulia", the Public Development Corporation of the State of Zulia - represented by Mrs. Rosario Giusti de Perez, Director of the New Town Development Plan

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, Artemis Anninou, Martine Weissmann, Hansjoachim Neis

Project stages:

Generative rules for urban growth process Generative rules for the neighborhood layout process Generative rules for house layout process by users Implementation process

The project focused on the housing component of the master plan for the new town of Guasare, in the state of Maracaibo, Venezuela, planned to accomodate several thousand workers. The design of its neighborhoods, each one for about 250 families, ...

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