People Rebuilding Berkeley: Photographs of existing patterns

01/01/1974

Site Existing Conditions, Patterns for Project

Photographs illustrating some existing city patterns described by the concept ‘Inhibition of Energy’: Do not Enter; Berkeley City Hall; Typical New Street Diverter; A Wastebasket: $300 .

Photographer:

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

Source:

Print, Negative

Characteristics:

5"x7", 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 ...

Contents

Photographs

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References

Reports

People Rebuilding Berkeley - The Self-Creating Life of Neighborhoods 20/11/1974

Project, Project Report

Authors:

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

201-page report which includes a 3-page “Memorandum to the Master Plan Revision Committee, City of Berkeley”. It demonstrates an early approach to the idea of piecemeal development applied to the organic fabric of streets in a town. It proposes the ...