CHRISTOPHER ANDREWS ARCHITECT & TOWN PLANNER

 

FLAGLER HEIGHTS IN FORT LAUDERDALE FLORIDA

THE CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STRUCTURE, MAY 1996

 

Christopher Andrews worked on this project with Christopher Alexander and the Center for Environmental Structure, as part of a graduate seminar, along with Shawn Bradbury, Saul Pichardo and Chris Sullivan. The following is an excerpt of some of the patterns from the report that was prepared for the City and the neighborhood association. All of this work is copyrighted by The Center for Environmental Structure.

 

 PEDESTRIAN NEIGHBORHOOD

 

 

  • In the new structure of the neighborhood there are public spaces and walking paths throughout. 

  • The pedestrian realm is the framework for the growing neighborhood.  

  • Flagler Heights will be a place where you would rather walk than drive your car, a place where children can play safely almost anywhere.

 INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPMENT

 

  • Instead of a few big developers, Flagler Heights will be built by hundreds of individual property owners. 

  • Only when we make the personal decisions that go into creating a home or business for ourselves, can that place truly belong to us.  

  • This process will encourage the resident owners to finance and develop their own land independently.

 

 

 THE PEDESTRIAN NETWORK,  VEHICLE LOOP ROADS & PARKING SPURS

 

 The car plays second fiddle to the pedestrian in a living neighborhood.. 

First, a clear and coherent system of pedestrian paths and open space is laid out over the neighborhood.

Then the vehicular network is woven throughout. Vehicular traffic will be accommodated without dominating the neighborhood

 

 

THE PRIMACY OF POSITIVE OPEN SPACE

 

  • Land is subdivided into individual properties     

 

  • The best land on each property is laid out as a garden.

 

  • Then, buildings fill in the space left over

SEE ALSO A PATTERN LANGUAGE

 

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