The Grass Roots Housing Process

01/06/1973

Project Report

55-page proposal for a new concept in the field of housing, which covers financing, design, social structure, principles of ownership, and rate of growth. It includes the following sections: 1. Introduction; 2. The Housing problem; 3. The project proposal – A. The cluster, B. The flow of money, C. The rate of growth, D. The builder; and 4. Grassroots housing as an alternative to public housing. There are two versions of the same document; the first is named “Working Draft for Discussion” and the other appears to be a final document typed anew.

Authors:

Christopher Alexander, Mike Cox, Halim Abdelhalim, Ed Hazzard, Ilhan Kural, Marty Schukert, Center for Environmental Structure, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Content of

Project

Grass Roots Housing 1973

Low Cost Housing, Designed , Completed in 1973 and implemented in various low cost housing projects

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, Mike Cox, Halim Abdelhalim, Ed Hazzard, Ilhan Kural, Marty Schukert

Project stages:

Generic rules for housing growth Rules for the flow of money in a low cost housing project

A 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, ...

Contents

Reports

References

Scientific Research

Academic Courses

Grass Roots Housing 1973

Academic,

University Program:

Master of Architecture

Course type:

Graduate Design Studio

Course number:

Arch. 280

Instructors:

Christopher Alexander

Enrolled students:

Mike Cox, Halim Abdelhalim, Ed Hazzard, Ilhan Kural, Marty Schukert

Correspondence

The Grass Roots Housing Process: Request for updated appendices to the report "The Grass Roots Housing Process" dated 1973, which was provided by Bob Harris in 1975 24/02/1987

Project, Status of Project, Request for Feedback

Sender:

Bob Reyburn, U.S.A.

Recipient:

Christopher Alexander, Center for Environmental Structure , Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Medium:

Letter

Manuscripts

The Grass Roots Housing Process; two drafts 01/06/1973

Project, Project Report Draft

Authors:

Christopher Alexander, Mike Cox, Halim Abdelhalim, Ed Hazzard, Ilhan Kural, Marty Schukert, Center for Environmental Structure, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

The first working draft for discussion includes crossed out sections of text while the second working draft, includes text editing with crossed out parts and rearrangement of pages as well as five new pages added before the Table of Contents.