developed by a man named Christopher Alexander. She wants to use his
method of building around a general concept and working with people
and the landscape to create what the community really wants and will
best use for Abeo's buildings.
The wiki address is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_Experiment
and the bit abour CA is here :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Alexander
Della described it as having a building plan, and walking around with
a window frame to find where the best place for the window will be -
to frame the landscape or let the light in or whatever your objective
is.
Sounds pretty cool!