I. Independent Regions**

Within each region work toward those regional policies which will protect the land and mark the limits of the cities:

2. The Distribution of Towns

3. City Country Fingers**

4. Agricultural Valleys*

5. Lace of Country Streets

6 Country Towns*

7. The Countryside*

 

Through city policies, encourage the piecemeal formation of those major structures which define the city:

8. Mosaic of Subcultures**

9. Scattered Work**

10. Magic of the City

11. Local Transport Areas**

 

Build up these larger city patterns from the grass roots, through action essentially controlled by two levels of self-governing communities, which exist as physically identifiable places

12. Community of 7000*

13. Subculture Boundary*

14 Identifiable Neighborhood**

15 Neighborhood Boundary*

 

Connect communities to one another by encouraging the growth of the following networks:

16 Web of Public Transportation*

17 Ring Roads

18 Network Of Learning*

19 Web Of Shopping*

20 Mini-Buses*

 

Establish community and neighborhood policy to control the character of the local environment according to the following fundamental principles;

21 Four-Story Limit**

22 Nine Per Cent Parking**

23 Parallel Roads

24 Sacred Sites*

25 Access To Water*

26 Life Cycle*

27 Men And Women

 

Both in the neighborhoods and the communities, and in between them, in the boundaries, encourage the formation of local centers;

28 Eccentric Nucleus*

29 Density Rings*

30 Activity Nodes**

31 Promenade**

32 Shopping Street*

33 Night Life*

34 Interchange

 

Around these centers, provide for the growth of housing in the form of clusters, based on face-to-face human groups;

35 Househould Mix*

36 Degrees Of Publicness**

37 House Cluster**

38 Row Houses*

39 Housing Hill

40 Old People Everywhere**

 

Between the house clusters, around the centers, and especially in the boundaries between neighborhoods, encourage the formation of work communities

41 Work Community**

42 Industrial Ribbon*

43 University As Marketplace

44 Local Town Hall*

45 Necklace Of Community Projects

46 Market Of Many Shops**

47 Health Center*

48 Housing In Between**

 

Between the house clusters and work communities, allow the local road and path network to grow informally, piecemeal

49 Looped Local Roads**

50 T Junctions*

51 Green Streets**

52 Network Of Paths And Cars**

53 Main Gateways**

54 Road Crossing

55 Raised Walk*

56 Bike Paths And Racks*

57 Children In The City

 

In the communities and neighborhoods, provide public open land where people can relax, rub shoulders and renew themselves

58 Carnival

59 Quiet Backs*

60 Accessible Green**

61 Small Public Squares**

62 High Places*

63 Dancing In The Street*

64 Pools And Streams*

65 Birth Places

66 Holy Ground*

 

In each house cluster and work community, provide the smaller bits of common land, to provide for local versions of the same needs

67 Common Land**

68 Connected Play*

69 Public Outdoor Land

70 Grave Sites*

71 Still Water*

72 Local Sports*

73 Adventure Playground

74 Animals

 

Within the framework of the common land, the clusters, and the work communities encourage transformation of the smallest independent social institutions: the families, workgroups, and gathering places. The family, in all its forms;

75 The Family*

76 House For A Small Family*

77 House For A Couple*

78 House For One Person*

79 Your Own Home**

 

The workgroups, including all kinds of workshops and offices and even children's learning groups:

80 Self-Governing Workshops And Offices**

81 Small Services Without Red Tape*

82 Office Connections*

83 Master And Apprentices*

84 Teenage Society

85 Shopfront Schools

86 Children's Home*

 

The local shops and gathering places.

87 Individually Owned Shops**

88 Street Cafe**

89 Corner Grocery*

90 Beer Hall

91 Traveller's Inn*

92 Bus Stop*

93 Food Stands*

94 Sleeping In Public

 

95 Building Complex**

96 Number Of Stories*

97 Shielded Parking*

98 Circulation Realms**

99 Main Building*

100 Pedestrian Street**

101 Building Thoroughfare

102 Family Of Entrances*

103 Small Parking Lots*

 

Fix the position of individual buildings on the site, within the complex, one by one, according to the nature of the site, the trees, the sun: this is one of the most important moments in the language.

104 Site Repair**

105 South Facing Outdoors**

106 Positive Outdoor Space**

107 Wings Of Light**

108 Connected Buildings*

109 Long Thin House*

 

Within the buildings' wings, lay out the entrances, the gardens, courtyards, roofs, and terraces: shape both the volume of fhe buildings and the volume of the space between the buildings at the same time-remembering that indoor space and outdoor space, Yin and Yang, must always get their shape together;

110 Main Entrance**

111 Half-Hidden Garden

112 Entrance Transition**

113 Car Connection

114 Hierarchy Of Open Space*

115 Courtyards Which Live**

116 Cascade Of Roofs*

117 Sheltering Roof**

118 Roof Garden*

 

When the major parts of buildings and the outdoor areas have been given their rough shape, it is the right time to give more detailed attention to the paths and squares between the buildings

119 Arcades**

120 Paths And Goals*

121 Path Shape*

122 Building Fronts*

123 Pedestrian Density*

124 Activity Pockets**

125 Stair Seats*

126 Something Roughly In The Middle

 

Now, with the paths fixed, we come back to the buildings: within the various wings of any one building, work out the fundamental gradients of space, and decide how the movement will connect the spaces in the gradients;

127 Intimacy Gradient**

128 Indoor Sunlight*

129 Common Areas At The Heart**

130 Entrance Room**

131 The Flow Through Rooms

132 Short Passages*

133 Staircase As A Stage

134 Zen View*

135 Tapestry Of Light And Dark*

 

Within the framework of the wings and their internal gradients of space and movement, define the most important areas and rooms. First, for a house;

136 Couple's Realm*

137 Children's Realm*

138 Sleeping To The East*

139 Farmhouse Kitchen**

140 Private Terrace On The Street**

141 A Room Of One's Own**

142 Sequence Of Sitting Spaces*

143 Bed Cluster*

144 Bathing Room*

145 Bulk Storage

 

Prepare to knit the inside of the building to the outside, by treating the edge between the two as a place in its own right, and making human details there;

146 Flexible Office Space

147 Communal Eating*

148 Small Work Groups**

149 Reception Welcomes You

150 A Place To Wait*

151 Small Meeting Rooms*

152 Half-Private Office

 

Add those small outbuildings which must be slightly in dependent from the main structure, and put in the access from the upper stories to the street and gardens;

153 Rooms To Rent

154 Teenager's Cottage*

155 Old Age Cottage**

156 Settled Work*

157 Home Workshop

158 Open Stairs*

 

Prepare to knit the inside of the building to the outside; by treating the edge between the two as a place in its own right, and making human details there;

159 Light On Two Sides Of Every Room**

160 Building Edge**

161 Sunny Place**

162 North Face

163 Outdoor Room**

164 Street Windows*

165 Opening To The Street*

166 Gallery Surround*

167 Six-Foot Balcony**

168 Connection To The Earth**

 

Go back to the inside of the building and attach the necessary minor rooms and alcoves to complete the main rooms:

169 Terraced Slope*

170 Fruit Trees*

171 Tree Places**

172 Garden Growing Wild**

173 Garden Wall*

174 Trellised Walk**

175 Greenhouse

176 Garden Seat

177 Vegetable Garden*

178 Compost*

 

Fine tune the shape and size of rooms and alcoves to make them precise and buildable:

179 Alcoves **

180 Window Place**

181 The Fire*

182 Eating Atmosphere

183 Workspace Enclosure**

184 Cooking Layout*

185 Sitting Circle*

186 Communal Sleeping

187 Marriage Bed

188 Bed Alcove**

189 Dressing Room*

 

Give all the walls some depth, wherever there are to be alcoves, windows, shelves, closets, or seats

190 Ceiling Height Variety**

191 The Shape Of Indoor Space**

192 Windows Overlooking Life*

193 Half-0Pen Wall*

194 Interior Windows

195 Staircase Volume*

196 Corner Doors*

 

Give the walls some depth:

197 Thick Walls**

198 Closets Between Rooms*

199 Sunny Counter*

200 Open Shelves*

201 Waist-High Shelf

202 Built-In Seats*

203 Child Caves

204 Secret Place

 

205 Structure Follows Social Spaces**

206 Efficient Structure*

207 Good Materials**

208 Gradual Stiffening**

 

Within this philosophy of structure, on the basis of the plans which you have made, work out the complete structural layout; this is the last thing you do on paper, before you actually start to build;

209 Roof Layout*

210 Floor And Ceiling Layout

211 Thickening The Outer Walls*

212 Columns At The Corners**

213 Final Column Distribution**

 

Put stakes in the ground to mark the columns on the site, and start erecting the main frame of the building according to the layout of these stakes;

214 Root Foundation

215 Ground Floor Slab**

216 Box Columns**

217 Perimeter Beams*

218 Wall Membranes*

219 Floor-Ceiling Vaults**

220 Roof Vaults*

 

Within the main frame of the building, fix the exact positions for openings-the doors and windows-and frame these openings;

221 Natural Doors And Windows**

222 Low Sill

223 Deep Reveals

224 Low Doorway

225 Frames As Thickened Edges**

 

As you build the main frame and its openings, put in the following subsidiary patterns where they are appropriate;

226 Column Place*

227 Column Connection**

228 Stair Vault*

229 Duct Space

230 Radiant Heat*

231 Dormer Windows*

232 Roof Caps

 

Put in the surfaces and indoor details;

233 Floor Surface**

234 Lapped Outside Walls

235 Soft Inside Walls*

236 Windows Which Open Wide*

237 Solid Doors With Glass

238 Filtered Light*

239 Small Panes**

240 Half-Inch Trim**

 

Build outdoor details to finish the outdoors as fully as the indoor spaces;

241 Seat Spots**

242 Front Door Bench*

243 Sitting Wall**

244 Canvas Roofs*

245 Raised Flowers*

246 Climbing Plants

247 Paving With Cracks Between The Stones**

248 Soft Tile And Brick

 

Complete the building with ornament and light and color and your own things;

249 Ornament**

250 Warm Colors**

251 Different Chairs

252 Pools Of Light**

253 Things From Your Life*