Go BackPlanned Development of Sixty-five Low Cost Houses
1990 to 1994Proposal for a new community of 200 people in a thirty acre site in Podunk, New York, near Ithaca, a traditional small town where houses to middle and low income families could be provided at a price that ordinary people can afford. One of the essential features of the project was an innovative financing program, which avoids up-front financing and allows the families to avoid high mortgage costs, by introducing a growth sequence for the individual house. .
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Planned Development of Sixty-five Low Cost Houses: Response to a letter inquiring possibilities of financing the project through federal programs which award funds for design
24/10/1989
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Planned Development of Sixty-five Low Cost Houses: Response to proposal description of aims for the Podunk affordable housing project, and praise for Christopher Alexander's involvement.
03/01/1990
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Planned Development of Sixty-five Low Cost Houses: Forwarding letter sent by Osmo Heila with a fund request for research and development, to Commissioner Division of Housing and Community Renewal; brief description of project with request for assistance to Mr. Heila included.
13/02/1990
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Podunk, New York
20/01/1992
Unformatted version of text and annotations indicating layout.
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Podunk, New York: A Village for 200 People, with Beautiful Small Houses at a Price that Ordinary People Can Afford, a New American Dream, Created by a Grass-roots Housing Process
30/03/1992
65-page original draft, with pencil marks inside and note on front page “Marked up original 3/30/1992”.
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Podunk, New York: A Village for 200 People, with Beautiful Small Houses at a Price that Ordinary People Can Afford, a New American Dream, Created by a Grass-roots Housing Process
31/03/1992
Working draft for discussion, sent to Osmo Heila as overall plan and scheme.
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Planned Development of Sixty-five Low Cost Houses: Application form
24/06/1991
Application form of the J.M. Kaplan Fund filled out by hand as draft, with various notes on the margines. Information required refers to additional documents to be attached, brief description of specific request, brief history and goals of C.E.S., project ...
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Planned Development of Sixty-five Low Cost Houses: New Podunk Village - Low-Cost Housing Community Podunk, New York: Project description
10/10/1991
5-page brief report draft. It describes the project background, its intention and its objectives, a record of the 1990 visit to the site, the immediate aims to be accomplished, a schedule with dates of work previously accomplished and of works ...
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Planned Development of Sixty-five Low Cost Houses: Project budget
01/10/1991
Incudes two budgets titled “Previous budget up until this stage” and “Budget needed for next stage of work to be accomplished”, summing up to the amount of grant requested from the Kaplan Fund.
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References
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The Uniqueness of People's Individual Worlds, Always Respected and Manifested
In the last two centuries "modular" design has produced identical apartments, arranged in typical apartment blocks. The same is true for mass-produced furniture. Uniqueness, which expresses personal needs and whiches, and which springs from the need to adapt and connect ...
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A New Approach to Design and Construction Management
A new kind of design/construction/management process, especially for large projects, is required, which will allow the building to be conceived, designed and built so that it comes to life. Below are the ground rules of such a process, already tried ...
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Invoice for service and other expences
31/12/1991
2 pages including lists of both, service fees by hour per project and reimbursable expenses by project. Partial payment of invoices is indicated.
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Distribution of projected work
27/03/1992
6 pages with semi-monthly estimated hours of work per project listed; suggestions by Christopher Alexander are marked on the January and February lists.
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Receipts for reimbursable expenses
25/10/1992
8 receipts for prints and other miscellaneous travel related expenses.
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