Photograph

People Rebuilding Berkeley: Photographs of existing patterns

01/01/1974

Site Existing Conditions, Patterns for Project

Ten images of various existing archetypal patterns, or ‘building blocks of neighborhoods’, illustrating ways that could help repair a small neighborhood: Main Gateways; Path Network; Activity Node; Accessible Green; Grave Sites; Children’s Home; Corner Grocery; Street Cafe; Local Sports; Still Water.

Photographer:

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

Source:

Print, Negative

Characteristics:

7 3/8"x9 5/8", 6"x7", 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 ...

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