permaculture

["Paul Osmond" <p_osmond@hotmail.com>]

Judith,

The URL for the space syntax lab at University College London is 
http://www.spacesyntax.com/. You will find a whole lot of useful references 
listed there (under "publications") - the most comprehensive being "Space is 
the Machine" by Bill Hillier (1996).

John,

I think your suggestion is great, and I would certainly be interested in 
being involved in such an activity.

Paul Osmond
University of New South Wales
Sydney, Australia




> From: Judith Hanna <jehanna@gn.apc.org>
> Reply-To: "permaculture" <permaculture@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
> To: "permaculture" <permaculture@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
> Subject: Re: Permaculture pattern languages?
> Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2000 15:52:35 +0100
>
> Dear John
>
> Alexander's neighbourhood/town patterns not the best available model -- so
> an update highlighting this would be useful.
>
> I've misplaced references for work on 'spatial syntax' at the Bartlett
> School of Architecture, university College London. These relate to quite a
> lot of work on town planning for pedestrian and public transport
> accessibility -- designing out car dependence and domination. Two relevant
> publications:
>
> Harley Sherlock: Cities are for People, Macmillan (1992 or so)
> Appleyard, Donald et al 'Liveable Cities' (U San Fancisco Press, I think,
> 1979)
>
> also, of course, Jane Jacobs 'Life and Death of American Cities'
>
> The gist of these is that Alexander's neighbourhood/town street designs are
> not the right approach -- but ignore the effects of car dominance on both
> livability of streets as public space and of course, on environmentaally
> sustainable mobility. A great deal of European work and examples of more
> civilised alternative approaches -- and some relevant Californian work too,
> on cluster settlements linked by rail lines (can't recall ref or
> terminology). I think the people who developed Davis were linked to the
> latter.
>
> Also from Australia -- Adelaide's 'eco-city' block development.
>
> And of course, Alexander didn't start to think about what sort of 'pattern
> language' would make sense of internet connectivity and global chat...
>
> sounds intersting
>
>
> At 00:15 07/10/00 -0700, you wrote:
> >Aloha,
> >
> >I am contemplating working on creating some pattern language patterns
> >relevant to permaculture.  Anyone know of any existing work of this 
> nature
> >in the realm of permaculture, and/or interested in messing about with 
> such
> >also?  It will be a sort of experiment at first, to see how Alexander et
> >al's patterns for formulating pattern languages can be used (as they 
> clearly
> >feel they can) in other similar yet different contexts.
> >
> >I suspect an activity of this sort could also help with what some 
> apparently
> >see as splinterings and/or divergences in various "permaculture" 
> curricula.
> >An ongoing collaborative effort to create a collection of relevant 
> patterns
> >might lead to a pattern language foundation for a more consistent 
> consensual
> >core curriculum (say that ten times fast... ;-).  (What is the "original"
> >curriculum, anyhow?  Where and how is it written down?)
> >
> >For those who wonder what the heck I'm talking about...I'm talking about
> >pattern languages as described and exemplified in "The Timeless Way of
> >Building" by Christopher Alexander and "A Pattern Language" by Alexander,
> >Ishikawa and Silverstein with Jacobson, Fiksdahl-King and Angel.  Great
> >stuff!  I think their approach could be of benefit to perma-culture.
> >
> >John Schinnerer
> >----------------------------------------------
> >Cultural & Ecological Designing
> >Human Habitat Design
> >john@eco-living.net
> >http://eco-living.net
> >
> >
> >
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