Correspondence

The Grass Roots Housing Process: Request for updated appendices to the report “The Grass Roots Housing Process” dated 1973, which was provided by Bob Harris in 1975

24/02/1987

Status of Project, Request for Feedback

Sender:

Bob Reyburn, U.S.A.

Recipient:

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

Medium:

Letter

Content of

Project

Grass Roots Housing 1973

Low Cost Housing, Designed , Completed in 1973 and implemented in various low cost housing projects

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, Mike Cox, Halim Abdelhalim, Ed Hazzard, Ilhan Kural, Marty Schukert

Project stages:

Generic rules for housing growth Rules for the flow of money in a low cost housing project

A proposal for an entirely new concept in the field of housing, written in the hope that sponsors will come forward and invest enough seed money to start a number of pilot projects. The proposal covers financing, design, social structure, ...

References

Reports

The Grass Roots Housing Process 01/06/1973

Project, Project Report

Authors:

Christopher Alexander, Mike Cox, Halim Abdelhalim, Ed Hazzard, Ilhan Kural, Marty Schukert, Center for Environmental Structure, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

55-page proposal for a new concept in the field of housing, which covers financing, design, social structure, principles of ownership, and rate of growth. It includes the following sections: 1. Introduction; 2. The Housing problem; 3. The project proposal – ...