Master Planning Process for the Town of Marsta: Photographs of presentation boards

01/01/1972

Design Process

Images of fourteen boards illustrating the presentation of a new proposed planning process which would allow the people of Marsta-Sigtuna to make all planning decisions for themselves. The boards depict the fundamental design tools used in the process and examples for implementing the process in different levels of scale. A set of images with the text of the boards translated to Swedish is also included.

Photograph:

1) A new kind of planning process Introductory overview
2) The Pattern Language, explaining the function of patterns
3) Patterns - List of patterns chosen for the project with summaries
4) Diagnosis - Process for detecting the project areas in need of improvement
5) Projects - Carrying out the improvenets suggested by Diagnosis
6) Procedure - Outlines the overall process with emphasis on user groups, making decisions which satisfy certain patterns
7) Town of Marsta Growth for 1973 - Maps simulating gradual improvements
8) Town of Marsta Neighborhoods - Groups of users using certain large scale patterns
9) Repair of an Existing Area - Using the process of Diagnosis for a case study in the University of Oregon
10) Public Building - Users using patterns layout the Modesto clinic on the land
11) Apartment Building in Marsta - User groups designing for themselves
12) Cluster of Houses - a group of families designing the common land and their houses
13) One Individual House - a family designing their own house
14) This is Your Choice - Summary and importance of the proposed process