Reconstruction of an Urban Neighborhood: Photographs of drawings

Plan for the rejuvenation of the Flagler Heights/Progresso community, an urban neighborhood in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, a congested slum-like, unprepossessing and disordered quite large area of the city, about half a mile by three-quartes of a mile. The project proposal ...

Theoretical basis and key assumptions for the process of urban growth, tested initially in the San Francisco Waterfront experimental project in 1979, in which the formation of larger urban wholes was highlighted as an overriding rule. This process was further ...

Outdoor space is positive when it is shaped just as a room is shaped. It has a contained character, it is bounded by walls, fences, natural vegetation, enclosure of some kind. It looks into other positive spaces, some larger, some ...

A sequence of five simulation drawings showing four sequencial stages in the transformation of a small area within a neighborhood. It shows how buildings are replaced, lots are amalgamated and divided and how the four components –roads (red), pedestrian paths ...

Two simulation drawings showing the splitting of lots and the multiplication of smaller scale individual buildings. The first drawing shows the new subdivision of parcels and the second one the system of roads and paths introduced to make lot splitting ...

Two simulation drawings showing the pedestrian network in a small part of the neighborhood. In the first drawing pedestrian paths, parks and squares are shown in yellow. The second drawing the same pedestrian structure is shown, with buildings in gray, ...