Christopher Alexander Ces Archive
  • Home
  • Christopher Alexander
  • Center for Environmental Structure
  • Publications
  • Projects
  • Works of Art
  • Construction Innovations
  • Academic
  • Scientific Research
  • Public Events
Photograph
Go Back

Reconstruction of an Urban Neighborhood: Photographs of drawings

01/01/1996
Design Process, Drawing

Two diagnosis maps of the neighborhood.

Photograph:

  • 1) Diagnosis map, with the good buildings which have a positive role in the neighborhood and need repair in dark color
  • 2) Diagnosis map - circles identify existing spaces and businesses which can be linked and supported to form chains of growing prosperity
Content of
  • Reconstruction of an Urban Neighborhood 1996
    Progresso, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, U.S.A.
    Neighborhood Planning, Designed , Completed in 1996
    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 ...
References
  • The Process of Urban Design and the Formation of Larger Urban Wholes
    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 ...
  • The Unfolding of Public Space and Gardens as Positive Space
    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 ...
  • Reconstruction of an Urban Neighborhood: Photographs of drawings 01/01/1996
    Project, Drawing
    Digitized
    Site plan for a neighborhood in Progresso, in three different versions, which present in a rudimentary form the system of public squares, gardens, and pedestrian streets which could form the hulls of public space.
  • Reconstruction of an Urban Neighborhood: Photographs of drawings 01/01/1996
    Project, Design Process, Drawing
    Digitized
    Two perspectives of the neighborhood, based on the simulations, and showing the kind of environment which would follow after a few years of the development process proposed for Progresso.
Christopher Alexander Ces Archive
Donations for the ongoing development of this Archive are gratefully accepted here DONATE
  • Christopher Alexander
  • Center for Environmental Structure
  • Publications
  • Projects
  • Works of Art
  • Construction Innovations
  • Academic
  • Scientific Research
  • Public Events

Contact us:

For information about the archive, please contact Artemis Anninou, Director of the project aanninou@outlook.com
Powered by
Copyright 2024 Center for Environmental Structure. All rights reserved. Distribution of any content on this website is expressly prohibited without prior written permission.
We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. If you click on “Yes” we will assume that you are happy with it.YesNo