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Guasare New Town, Venezuela Project

A planning scheme for a new town of several thousand workers in the state of Maracaibo, Venezuela, illustrating the 10-step generative process; never implemented.

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Thinkers (3)

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Christopher Alexander
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Hajo Neis
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Collaborator on the Eishin Campus and Parkstadt projects, and independent partner on the Frankfurt/Hoechst project.
Artemis Anninou
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Co-designer of the Mountain View Civic Center project with Christopher Alexander.

Institutes (1)

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Corpozulia
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Coal-mining corporation that commissioned the Guasare new town plan in Venezuela.

Concepts (1)

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Fundamental process
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The core iterative procedure that creates living structure; the engine of living process

Questions (1)

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How can dynamic neighborhood development be done — in practice — at the scale of a city or neighborhood?
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The motivating question that leads Alexander to present the Guasare process as an answer.

Chapters (1)

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Chapter 11: How Living Processes Must Generate Necessary Further Dynamics of Any Neighborhood Which Comes to Life
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The working unit being extracted; covers dynamic neighborhood generation, structure-preserving transformations, and case studies in Colombia, Venezuela, Israel, and San Francisco.