Master Planning Process for the Town of Marsta: Planeringssituation 1972-1973

01/03/1973

Reference Document

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 of a community.

Authors:

Hans Blomqvist, Christian Bodros, Arne Fredlund, Jan Hammargren, Pontus Ljungberg, Lena Sjostrom, Hans Vestin, Strangna, Sweden

Content of

Project

Master Planning Process for the Town of Marsta 1972

Marsta, Sweden

Master Planning, Designed , Design Competition, Proposal submitted in 1970

Client:

Johaness Olivegren

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, Max Jacobson, Ingrid Fiksdahl-King

Project stages:

Pattern language for the project by C.E.S. Generic rules for the layout on the site by users Generic rules for urban growth process Implementation process

Master 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 ...

References

Reports

Master Planning Process for the Town of Marsta: A New Kind of Planning Process 01/01/1972

Project, Project Report

Authors:

Christopher Alexander, Max Jacobson, Ingrid Fiksdahl-King, Center for Environmental Structure, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

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 ...