Rebirth of the Inner City: Omaha Plan; Chapter 5 – Description of the Planning Process

01/01/1981

Project Report Draft, Partial Manuscript

72-page draft of parts of the report. It includes Chapter #5, with a description of the Planning Process, defining the neighborhood as the center of all planning activities to be developedin the next 4 years, listing a number of projects in public land, projects for house improvement, projects that invite and improve business activities. A new list of criteria is presented together with community goals. It also includes ‘Part Two: Implementation of the Plan’ referring to The City, The Community, The Neighborhood, The Individual Families and Businesses.

Authors:

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

Content of

Project

Community Development Plan for North Omaha 1979 to 1982

Omaha, NE, U.S.A.

Development Plan, Designed , Completed in Feb-1982

Client:

Housing and Community Development Department, Omaha, Nebraska - Marty Schukert, Director

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, Howard Davis

Project stages:

Generic rules for urban growth process Implementation process

A comprehensive development plan for the community of North Omaha, with 13,000 people and 4 square miles total area. Strong emphasis on community reconstruction and on the economic development of a depressed inner city neighborhood, with 95 percent black people. ...

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Rebirth of the Inner City: The North Omaha Plan 01/01/1981

Project, Project Report

Authors:

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

The substance of the plan has to do with the creation of a process by which people can create a community for themselves. 233-page report organized in three parts, as follows; Part One: The Assumptions of the Plan; Part Two: ...