This website gives you a step-by-step process, for laying out large neighborhoods, small neighborhoods, building complexes, and buildings, using generative code.

The process begins with large and general aspects of layout, and gradually works its way down to detailed issues of planning, buildings, road layout, common public space, gardens. It also includes material helping you to manage, or build, the implementation, or parts of the implementation of such a project.

To lay out a neighborhood, or any portion of a neighborhood, you use the "unfoldings" that appear on the ACTION & PRACTICE pages (see menu to the left), one at a time. This will allow the design, layout and structure of the neighborhood to unfold, step by step, until it is complete.

The unfoldings are arranged in groups, each dealing with a typical phase in creating or repairing a neighborhood. To simplify your tasks, use the groups of unfoldings roughly in the order they are presented. As you become familiar with and work with the unfoldings, you'll find that you can modify them, and create new ones that are specific to the physical attributes and culture of your neighborhood.

Print out the unfoldings in groups, or individually, to study them carefully at the site on which you are building. The WORKBOOK is offered to support the work you do by yourself and with others, making the unfoldings and other materials easily accessible. All these materials and your ideas and notes can be assembled together there.

The DRAWING PAD is also a vitally useful tool. With it, you can create realistic site maps and drawings on which each new unfolding is built, gradually bringing coherence to the whole project.