People Rebuilding Berkeley: Sketches

01/11/1974

Architectural Design, Sketches, Site Plan

One colored schematic drawing of a neighborhood, simulating the positive impact of the hundreds of small acts of building by the people of the community, upon the existing streets’ grid, during the time span of ten years; also a part of the same drawing in black and white with the same information.

Designers:

Christopher Alexander, Howard Davis, Halim Abdelhalim, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Medium:

Original on Tracing Paper

Size:

8 1/2"x11"

Content of

Project

People Rebuilding Berkeley 1974

Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Neighborhood Planning, Designed , Proposal completed in 1974

Client:

City of Berkeley Master Plan Revision Committee

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, Howard Davis, Halim Abdelhalim

Project stages:

Pattern language for the project by C.E.S. Generic rules for urban growth process

Neighborhood-controlled planning process, in which the energy of the people of the town is liberated, and join together in the creation, growth and constant repair of the common land. It proposes the local neighborhood as the fundamental unit for a ...

Contents

Drawings

References

Academic Courses

People Rebuilding Berkeley 1974

Academic,

University Program:

Master of Architecture

Course type:

Graduate Design Studio

Course number:

Arch. 280

Instructors:

Christopher Alexander, Halim Abdelhalim

Enrolled students:

Howard Davis, Pat Cashman, Bob Daughters, Bob Delaney, Efthymios Dimoulas, Bob Esparza, Dorian Gardner, Ed Hazzard, Colin McGlibery, Tsuneki Miyagushi, Harold Nelson, Jane Rath, Bob Reyes, Fumimasa Sugiyama, Larry Thompson, Larry Wight, Ann Wochiler, Reuel Young

Development of a planning process for the City of Berkeley in which individual neighborhoods had the responsibility for their own improvement through a process based on the use of patterns at a very local scale .

Reports

People Rebuilding Berkeley - The Self-Creating Life of Neighborhoods 20/11/1974

Project, Project Report

Authors:

Christopher Alexander, Howard Davis, Halim Abdelhalim, Center for Environmental Structure, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

201-page report which includes a 3-page “Memorandum to the Master Plan Revision Committee, City of Berkeley”. It demonstrates an early approach to the idea of piecemeal development applied to the organic fabric of streets in a town. It proposes the ...