
Within each region work toward those regional policies which will protect the land and mark the limits of the cities:
Through city policies, encourage the piecemeal formation of those major structures which define the city:
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
14 Identifiable Neighborhood**
Connect communities to one another by encouraging the growth of the following networks:
16 Web of Public Transportation*
Establish community and neighborhood policy to control the character of the local environment according to the following fundamental principles;
Both in the neighborhoods and the communities, and in between them, in the boundaries, encourage the formation of local centers;
Around these centers, provide for the growth of housing in the form of clusters, based on face-to-face human groups;
Between the house clusters, around the centers, and especially in the boundaries between neighborhoods, encourage the formation of work communities
45 Necklace Of Community Projects
Between the house clusters and work communities, allow the local road and path network to grow informally, piecemeal
52 Network Of Paths And Cars**
In the communities and neighborhoods, provide public open land where people can relax, rub shoulders and renew themselves
In each house cluster and work community, provide the smaller bits of common land, to provide for local versions of the same needs
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;
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*
The local shops and gathering places.
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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.
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;
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
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;
129 Common Areas At The Heart**
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;
140 Private Terrace On The Street**
142 Sequence Of Sitting Spaces*
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;
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;
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**
Go back to the inside of the building and attach the necessary minor rooms and alcoves to complete the main rooms:
Fine tune the shape and size of rooms and alcoves to make them precise and buildable:
Give all the walls some depth, wherever there are to be alcoves, windows, shelves, closets, or seats
191 The Shape Of Indoor Space**
Give the walls some depth:
205 Structure Follows Social Spaces**
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;
211 Thickening The Outer Walls*
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;
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**
225 Frames As Thickened Edges**
As you build the main frame and its openings, put in the following subsidiary patterns where they are appropriate;
Put in the surfaces and indoor details;
Build outdoor details to finish the outdoors as fully as the indoor spaces;
247 Paving With Cracks Between The Stones**
Complete the building with ornament and light and color and your own things;