The Oregon Experiment
The Oregon ExperimentGreat little book, third in the series TheTimelessWayOfBuilding and PatternLanguage by ChristopherAlexander e.a.
Oxford University Press, New York 1975
This book simply begs for implementation, and not only for buildings. It describes an alternative for master plans; in this case, for the University of Oregon.
The six principles that Alexander describes offer an alternative for master plans in software development.
The principles:
A must read! -- MartineDevos
Unfortunately, it isn't really the case study of the ideas from TheTimelessWayOfBuilding that I expected, but instead more of a guide for how to implement some of them. It is however a really good complement to TWOB, since it gives some practical context. I just wish someone would make a follow-up about how the experiment turned out. -- AndersBengtsson
The book is a classic mission statement from the beginning of a social experiment. Some articles on the current state of the experiment, written in 1991 & 1994, can be reached from here:
http://www.rainmagazine.com/archive/1991-1/the-oregon-experiment-revisited http://www.rainmagazine.com/archive/1994/alexander-visits-the-oregon-experiment
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