Basic Characteristics of Town Hall
Local government of communities and local control by the inhabitants, will only happen
if each community has its own physical town hall which forms the nucleus of its political
activity.
- Christopher Alexander
- The town hall as community territory
- neighbor hood participation
- the community need; place where people can have access to storefront, work space,
meeting rooms, office equipment.
- The location of local town halls
- community center can afford to be within a block of the major pedestrian intersections.
- Three different types of spaces
- the building requires three parts: a public forum for desiccation, public services
around the forum, and space to rent out to ad hoc community project.
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