Reconstruction of an Urban Neighborhood: Toward an Urban Village in Flagler Heights

01/07/1996

Reference Document

44-page report presenting proposals for better organizing the development of the Flagler Heights community, spatially, activity and economy wise. Organized according to four elements that are essential for any successful community: ‘Centers’ (focal points that draw people to the neighborhood), ‘peripheral spaces’ (edges of neighborhood, blocks, properties), ‘Circulation’ (traffic of motor vehicles, pedestrians, bicycles), ‘outside’ connections with economic and social forces in nearby neighborhoods). With reference to the A New Vision for Flagler Heights/Progresso report by C.E.S.

Authors:

Charles C. Euchner, Department of Political Science, College of Holly Cross, Worcester, MA, U.S.A.

Content of

Project

Reconstruction of an Urban Neighborhood 1996

Progresso, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, U.S.A.

Neighborhood Planning, Designed , Completed in 1996

Client:

City of Ft. Lauderdale

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, Saul Pichardo, Chris Andrews, Shawn Bradbury

Project stages:

Generative rules for urban growth process Generative rules for the neighborhood layout process Implementation process

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

Reports

Reconstruction of an Urban Neighborhood: A New Vision for Flagler Heights/Progresso, Fort Lauderdale, Florida 01/05/1996

Project, Project Report

Authors:

Christopher Alexander, Chris Andrews, Shawn Bradbury, Saul Pichardo, Chris Sullivan, Center for Environmental Structure, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

33-page project proposal which dwells on the transformation of the existing neighborhood by a sequence of design and construction small actions carried out over many years, gradually, in order to establish and/or improve its pedestrian network, gardens, roads, communal life ...