People Rebuilding Berkeley: Photographs of drawings

01/01/1974

Drawing

Three “Diagnosis Maps”, by three different people, identifying areas in a specific neighborhood that need improvement, specifying the year of the diagnosis, identifying major problems and conflict issues, and ultimately proposing corrections and improvements though the implementation of specific patterns .

Photographer:

Christopher Alexander/C.E.S., Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Source:

Characteristics:

8 1/2"x11", B&W

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 ...

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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 .