Master Plan for the University of Oregon: Sketches – Pattern “Looped Local Roads”
01/01/1971Drawing illustrating how a system of “looped roads” inside a campus area can maintain a balance between pedestrian movement and car traffic by forming a system of loops and cul-de-sacs, so that through traffic is impossible.
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Development of first Patterns and Pattern Languages
The first patterns were developed in 1967 by a group of people working together with Christopher Alexander in the Center for Environmental Structure. Between 1968 and 1976 the first pattern languages were developed and tested for particular projects undertaken by ...
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Project Specific Pattern Languages - Specificity and Generality of Pattern Languages
A shared pattern language in a project acts as the generic system which gives the power to the smaller local acts to form a whole. Within the process of making a project, every individual act of building differentiates space. However, ...