62 - High Places * The instinct to climb up to some high place, from which you can look down and survey your world, seems to be a fundamental human instinct.

213 - Final Column Distribution ** How should the spacing of the secondary columns which stiffen the walls, vary with ceiling height, number of stories and the size of rooms?

233 - Floor Surface ** We want the floor to be comfortable, warm to the touch, inviting. But we also want it to be hard enough to resist wear, and easy to clean.

240 - Half-Inch Trim ** Totalitarian, machine buildings do not require trim because they are precise enough to do without. But they buy their precision at a dreadful price: by killing the possibility of freedom in the building plan.

174 - Trellised Walk ** Trellised walks have their own special beauty. They are so unique, so different from other ways of shaping a path, that they are almost archetypal.

58 - Carnival Just as an individual person dreams fantastic happenings to release the inner forces which cannot be encompassed by ordinary events, so too a city needs its dreams.

215 - Ground Floor Slab The slab is the easiest, cheapest, and most natural way to lay a ground floor.

180 - Window Place ** Everybody loves window seats, bay windows, and big windows with low sills and comfortable chairs drawn up to them.

188 - Bed Alcove ** Bedrooms make no sense.

134 - Zen View * The archetypal zen view occurs in a famous Japanese house, which gives this pattern its name.

145 - Bulk Storage In houses and workplaces there is always some need for bulk storage space; a place for things like suitcases, old furniture, old files, boxes - all those things which you are not ready to throw away, and yet not using everyday.

244 - Canvas Roofs * There is a very special beauty about tents and canvas awnings. The canvas has a softness, a suppleness, which is in harmony with wind and light and sun. A house or any building built with some canvas will touch all the elements more nearly than it can when it is made only with

92 - Bus Stop * Bus stops must be easy to recognize, and pleasant, with enough activity around them to make people comfortable and safe.

223 - Deep Reveals Windows with a sharp edge where the frame meets the wall create harsh, blinding glare, and make the rooms they serve uncomfortable.

35 - Household Mix * No one stage in the life cycle is self-sufficient.

93 - Food Stands * Many of our habits and institutions are bolstered by the fact that we can get simple, inexpensive food on the street, on the way to shopping, work, and friends.

187 - Marriage Bed The bed is the center of a couple's life together: the place where they lie together, talk, make love, sleep, sleep late, take care of each other during illness. But beds and bedrooms are not often made in ways which intensify their meaning, and these experiences cannot take

113 - Car Connection The process of arriving in a house, and leaving it, is fundamental to our daily fives; and very often it involves a car. But the place where cars connect to houses, far from being important and beautiful, is often off to one side and neglected.

124 - Activity Pockets ** The life of a public square forms naturally around its edge. If the edge fails, then the space never becomes lively.

198 - Closets Between Rooms * The provision of storage and closets usually comes as an afterthought.

30 - Activity Nodes ** Community facilities scattered individually through the city do nothing for the life of the city.

102 - Family of Entrances * When a person arrives in a complex of offices, or services or workshops, or in a group of related houses, there is a good chance he will experience confusion unless the whole collection is laid out before him, so that he can see the entrance of the place where he is

128 - Indoor Sunlight * If the right rooms are facing south, a house is bright and sunny and cheerful; if the wrong rooms are facing south, the house is dark and gloomy.

243 - Sitting Wall ** If you have also marked the places where it makes sense to build seats - Seat Spots (241), Front Door Bench (242) - you can kill two birds with one stone by using the walls as seats which help enclose the outdoor space wherever its positive character is weakest.

10 - Magic of the City There are few people who do not enjoy the magic of a great city. But urban sprawl takes it away from everyone except the few who are lucky enough, or rich enough, to live close to the largest centers.

72 - Local Sports * The human body does not wear out with use. On the contrary, it wears down when it is not used.

23 - Parallel Roads The net-like pattern of streets is obsolete. Congestion is choking cities. Cars can average 60 miles per hour on freeways, but trips across town have an average speed of only 10 to 15 miles per hour.

23 - Parallel Roads The net-like pattern of streets is obsolete. Congestion is choking cities. Cars can average 60 miles per hour on freeways, but trips across town have an average speed of only 10 to 15 miles per hour.

78 - House For One Person * Once a household for one person is part of some larger group, the most critical problem which arises is the need for simplicity.

191 - The Shape of Indoor Space ** The perfectly crystalline squares and rectangles of ultramodern architecture make no special sense in human or in structural terms. They only express the rigid desires and fantasies which people have when they get too preoccupied with systems and the means of

112 - Entrance Transition ** Buildings, and especially houses, with a graceful transition between the street and the inside, are more tranquil than those which open directly off the street.

199 - Sunny Counter * Dark gloomy kitchens are depressing. The kitchen needs the sun more than the other rooms, not less.

164 - Street Windows * A street without windows is blind and frightening. And it is equally uncomfortable to be in a house which bounds a public street with no window at all on the street.

97 - Shielded Parking * Large parking structures full of cars are inhuman and dead buildings - no one wants to see them or walk by them. At the same time, if you are driving, the entrance to a parking structure is essentially the main entrance to the building - and it needs to be visible.

162 - North Face Look at the north sides of the buildings which you know. Almost everywhere you will find that these are the spots which are dead and dank, gloomy and useless. Yet there are hundreds of acres in a town on the north sides of buildings; and it is inevitable that there must always be

38 - Row Houses * At densities of 15 to 30 houses per acre, row houses are essential. But typical row houses are dark inside, and stamped from an identical mould.

223 - Deep Reveals Windows with a sharp edge where the frame meets the wall create harsh, blinding glare, and make the rooms they serve uncomfortable.

230 - Radiant Heat * This pattern is a biologically precise formulation of the intuition that sunlight and a hot blazing fire are the best kinds of heat.

5 - Lace of Country Streets The suburb is an obsolete and contradictory form of human settlement.

148 - Small Work Groups ** When more than half a dozen people work in the same place, it is essential that they not be forced to work in one huge undifferentiated space, but that instead, they can divide their workspace up, and so form smaller groups.

219 - Floor-Ceiling Vaults ** We seek a ceiling vault shape which will support a live load on the floor above, form the ceiling of the room below, and generate as little bending and tension as possible so that compressive materials can be relied on.

18 - Network of Learning * In a society which emphasizes teaching, children and students - and adults - become passive and unable to think or act for themselves. Creative, active individuals can only grow up in a society which emphasizes learning instead of teaching.

149 - Reception Welcomes You Have you ever walked into a public building and been processed by the receptionist as if you were a package?

158 - Open Stairs * Internal staircases reduce the connection between upper stories and the life of the street to such an extent that they can do enormous social damage.

23 - Parallel Roads The net-like pattern of streets is obsolete. Congestion is choking cities. Cars can average 60 miles per hour on freeways, but trips across town have an average speed of only 10 to 15 miles per hour.

235 - Soft Inside Walls * A wall which is too hard or too cold or too solid is unpleasant to touch; it makes decoration impossible, and creates hollow echoes.

91 - Travelers Inn * A man who stays the night in a strange place is still a member of the human community, and still needs company. There is no reason why he should creep into a hole, and watch TV alone, the way he does in a roadside motel.

194 - Interior Windows Windows are most often used to create connections between the indoor and the outdoors. But there are many cases when an indoor space needs a connecting window to another indoor space.

16 - Web of Public Transportation * The system of public transportation - the entire web of airplanes, helicopters, hovercraft, trains, boats, ferries, buses, taxis, mini-trains, carts, ski-lifts, moving sidewalks - can only work if all the parts are well connected. But they usually aren't,

201 - Waist-High Shelf In every house and every workplace there is a daily "traffic" of the objects which are handled most. Unless such things are immediately at hand, the flow of life is awkward, full of mistakes; things are forgotten, misplaced.