The Nature of Order: An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe; Chapter 23 of Book Three

09/05/1996
Book Draft, Partial Manuscript

157-page draft of Chapter 23: A Coherent Vision of a Modern City – The Fundamental Process Repeated Ten Million Times. Sections included are: “The City”, “The City: Part 2”, “Neighborhood: Cars and Pedestrians”, “Interiors and Interior Space”, “Volume and Site Design”, “Structure and Space” on the structure of buildings. “Stuart’s old copies” is noted on the first page of the draft with few handwritten notes in the text and a note on the last page by Bill McClung after his review. The chapter discusses the fundamental process of unfolding, as one process which can be implemented in all different scales composing our built environment, from a whole region, to a city, a town, a neighborhood, a building. Each section starts with a prologue written as “Letter to a Reader” each introducing how one should go about approaching these different scales of the built environment.

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