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Master Planning Process for the Town of Marsta
1972Master Plan based on the fundametal idea of a planning process which allows the planning office of Sigtuna Marsta commune together with representative users to make planning decisions for themselves. The process, organized on the basis of four elements "Pattern Language", "Diagnosis", "Projects" and "Procedure". The main feature of the process was that families would be able to design their own houses, apartments and apartment buildings by studying and using the proposed patterns and project specific pattern language.
Contents
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Master Planning Process for the Town of Marsta: Audiovisual Tape
01/01/1972
One tape with material related to the design competition for the production of a planning process for the town of Marsta .
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Master Planning Process for the Town of Marsta: Concept boards illustrating "A New Kind of Planning Process"
9 9) Repair of an Existing Area - Using the process of Diagnosis for a case study in the University of Oregon
01/01/1972
Fourteen large presentation boards illustrating the proposed planning process based on five guiding principles; the first six boards give an overview of them and the planning process in general, providing clarifications on ‘Pattern Language’, ‘Diagnosis’, ‘Projects’, ‘User Groups’ and ‘Procedure’, ...
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Master Planning Process for the Town of Marsta: Concept boards illustrating "A New Kind of Planning Process", in Swedish
01/01/1972
14 smaller boards presenting the contents of the new planning process, with explanatory texts translated to Swedish.
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Master Planning Process for the Town of Marsta: Sketches - Town Growth for 1973
7 7) 'Scattered Work' pattern
01/01/1972
Sequence of seven sketches on a regional map, each one illustrating the implementation of a pattern as one of the guiding principles for the design process of a future town development. The patterns refer to large scale design issues.
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Master Planning Process for the Town of Marsta: Sketches - Neighborhoods
9 9) Interaction of user groups participating in the project
01/01/1972
Sequence of nine sketches depicting the process of organizing and laying out 350 houses in three distinct neighborhoods by involving various user groups. One user group determining the overall location of housing and its large-scale patterns, and three subgroups determining ...
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Master Planning Process for the Town of Marsta: Sketches - Apartment Building Plans
8 Third example of family apartment
01/01/1972
Five drawings describing a rough sequence of design steps to be followed be the user-families for designing an apartment building, applying one basic pattern at each step, followed by three more drawings depicting examples of various apartment designs, that such ...
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Master Planning Process for the Town of Marsta: A New Kind of Planning Process
01/01/1972
31-page document explaining how families in Marsta-Sigtuna will be able to design their own house by using patterns, participate in the process and contribute their good ideas to the design. The process is explained by using an example of a ...
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Master Planning Process for the Town of Marsta: Planeringssituation 1972-1973
01/03/1973
Book with a summary compilation of student investigations and discussions on issues of community planning. A result of detecting the problems of the modern/current approach, based on centralized decisions, bureaucratic and technocratic considerations which deny the ecological and cultural context ...
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Master Planning Process for the Town of Marsta: Photographs of presentation boards
9 9) Repair of an Existing Area - Using the process of Diagnosis for a case study in the University of Oregon
01/01/1972
Images of fourteen boards illustrating the presentation of a new proposed planning process which would allow the people of Marsta-Sigtuna to make all planning decisions for themselves. The boards depict the fundamental design tools used in the process and ...
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Master Planning Process for the Town of Marsta - Neighborhoods: Photographs on design process
9 9) Interaction of user groups participating in the project
01/01/1972
Nine images of sketches depicting in sequential order the process of organizing and laying out 350 houses in three distinct neighborhoods by using patterns with the involvement of user groups. One user group determining the overall location of housing and ...
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Master Planning Process for the Town of Marsta - Town Growth for 1973: Photographs on design process
9 9) 'Old Age Island' pattern
01/01/1972
Nine images of sketches on a regional map, each one illustrating the implementation of a pattern as one of the guiding principles for the design process of a future town development. The patterns refer primarily to large scale design issues.
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References
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Development of first Patterns and Pattern Languages
The first patterns were developed in 1967 by a group of people working together with Christopher Alexander in the Center for Environmental Structure. Between 1968 and 1976 the first pattern languages were developed and tested for particular projects undertaken by ...
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Master Planning as a Dynamic Process - Organic Order and Piecemeal Growth
It is simply not possible to fix today, in a Master Plan, what the environment should be like in the future, and then to steer the piecemeal process of development toward that fixed, imaginary world. Instead, planning and construction will ...
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"Car-Pedestrian Symbiosis" Pattern - Original
01/08/1969
Early formulation of pattern on a 2-page format with: Title of Pattern, Photo, Statement of Problem, Solution, Diagram, Author/s, Date, revision Date and Notes; included in “A Pattern Language”, pattern #52 Network of Paths and Cars. Revised in Jun-1970.
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"Activity Nuclei" Pattern
01/08/1969
Early formulation of pattern on a 2-page format with: Title of Pattern, Photo, Statement of Problem, Solution, Diagram, Author/s, Date, revision Date and Notes; included in “A Pattern Language”, pattern #30 Activity Nodes. Revised in Jun-1970.
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"Paseo" Pattern - Original
01/08/1969
Early formulation of pattern on a 2-page format with: Title of Pattern, Photo, Statement of Problem, Solution, Diagram, Author/s, Date, revision Date and Notes; included in “A Pattern Language”, pattern 31. Promenade.
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Photograph of the pattern "Pools of Light"
01/01/1972
Image of the early pattern “Pools of Light”, as described in the “Master Planning Process for the Town of Marsta”.
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Photograph of the pattern "Visible Street Numbers"
01/01/1972
Image of the early pattern “Visible Street Numbers”, as described in the “Master Planning Process for the Town of Marsta”.
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Photograph of the pattern "Long Thin House"
01/01/1972
Image of the early pattern “Long Thin House”, as described in the “Master Planning Process for the Town of Marsta”.
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