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Grass Roots Housing
1973A proposal for an entirely new concept in the field of housing, written in the hope that sponsors will come forward and invest enough seed money to start a number of pilot projects. The proposal covers financing, design, social structure, principles of ownership, and rate of growth, and puts forward a process in which the owner is intimately involved in the evolutionary design and construction of his own house. In place of high interest rates and ruinous mortgages, it proposes a system that, with a very small initial investment, recycles the capital that it generates to begin more and more houses, without bank loans. The intention was to provide a solution to the most fundamental problems in the housing shortage, in many countries.
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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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Dynamics of a Growing Neighborhood - Rules and Patterns for Laying out a Neighborhood
Neighborhoods and communities grow and change over time, and the effect of time on the process of its adaptation on real needs is huge, and leads to types and styles of order quite different from any planned arrangement, based on ...
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Steven Grabow Interviews Christopher Alexander: Grabow recorded and transcribed the interviews, being the raw material for his book on Alexander - The twenty-first transcript includes the May-01 interview
01/05/1977
50-page handwritten transcript of the twenty-first interview titled “Biographic Cont. – Phase II of the Center”. Alexander expands the discussion into the social and practical politics that shape neighborhoods, the need for improving this structure, the importance of the architect-builder ...
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Steven Grabow Interviews Christopher Alexander: Grabow recorded and transcribed the interviews, being the raw material for his book on Alexander - The thirty-first transcript includes the first part of the Jun-27 interview
27/06/1977
20-page handwritten transcript of the thirty-first interview titled “Political Structure (of an organic unity) – Processes (also unity of space idea)”. How patterns, processess, principles, ways of setting up a project shape the political and social structure of a project. ...