The Grass Roots Housing Process; two drafts

01/06/1973

Project Report Draft

The first working draft for discussion includes crossed out sections of text while the second working draft, includes text editing with crossed out parts and rearrangement of pages as well as five new pages added before the Table of Contents.

Authors:

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

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, ...

Contents

Manuscripts

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 – ...