Christopher Alexander
Biographic Data
| ID | 3658222 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher Alexander |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher |
| FAMILY NAME | Alexander |
| SIGNATURE | ALEXANDER C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5018-7238 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1960 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
A new approach to a wicked problem
Food insecurity is a complex societal problem that disproportionately impacts households with children and those led by minoritized populations, with negative impacts on health across the life course. System to Achieve Food Equity adapted the learning systems model, used to address similarly complex problems, to tackle food insecurity at a neighborhood level. SAFE, born out of the COVID-19 pandemic, leverages a family-centered, community-based, c…
The Role of Technology in Improving Access to Justice for Victims of Family Violence
In Australia, domestic and family violence (DFV) is a major health and human rights issue. Technology is increasingly being recognised as an important tool to assist victims/survivors of DFV in accessing legal services, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. Technology has been rapidly rolled out to assist victims/survivors obtain legal advice and protection orders, and to participate in judicial processes. This article focuses on the experienc…
The Arab Revolts
The Architecture of Militancy
capital relations in late industrializing countries. How can labor's varying responses to privatization, subsidy reduction, and other reforms that undermine long-standing state-labor relationships be explained? Why do workers develop strong collective identities and strategies in some cases but not in others? Why does militancy remain focused on workplace issues in some cases while elsewhere it takes up broader social and political grievances? Mo…
Labour Code Reform in Tunisia
While most scholarship on the politics of economic reform focuses on issues such as privatization, trade liberalization and subsidy reduction, some of the most important and interesting reforms concern labour codes. Because these reforms involve actors outside of 'the state', they shed light on political dynamics that other reform issues do not. They also raise powerful questions about the kind of political economy that state, labour and capital …
Opportunities, Organizations, and Ideas
Since the late 1970s, a voluminous body of scholarship has examined the socio-economic roots of Islamist politics. Much of this literature presents Islamist movements as angry responses to corrupt authoritarian regimes and broken moral economies in the post-oil boom era. In this view, Islam offers a culturally authentic alternative to a disinherited and disenfranchised generation
The Social History of Labor in the Middle East
The social history of labour in the Ottoman Empire - 1800-1914, Donald Quataert the labour movement in Turkey - labour pains, maturity, metamorphosis, Gunseli Berik and Cihan Bilginsoy making history, but not of their own choosing - workers and the labour movement in Iran, Valentine M. Moghadam labour in Syria - the emergence of new identities, Elisabeth Longuenesse the labour movement in Israel - ideology and political economy, Michael Shalev re…
Taking Research Findings Beyond the Journals
Back from the Democratic Brink
Christopher Alexander, Back from the Democratic Brink: Authoritarianism and Civil Society in Tunisia, Middle East Report, No. 205, Middle East Studies Networks: The Politics of a Field (Oct. - Dec., 1997), pp. 34-38
Award Recipients
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A New Theory of Urban Design
A Pattern Language
Notes on the Synthesis of Form
The Origin of Creative Power in Children
THE ORIGIN OF CREATIVE POWER IN CHILDREN Get access Christopher Alexander Christopher Alexander Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 2, Issue 3, July 1962, Pages 207–226, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjaesthetics/2.3.207 Published: 01 July 1962
A Result in Visual Aesthetics
Subjects were given eight forms and asked to sort them in a number of ways on the basis of overall similarity; they were also asked to state the order of their preferences among the forms. From the data generated, four tentative results emerged: By giving ourselves an appropriate verbal set, we can make ourselves see (and categorize) a group of forms in many different ways. It appears, however, that there is a natural way of categorizing them whi…
Opportunities, Organizations, and Ideas
Since the late 1970s, a voluminous body of scholarship has examined the socio-economic roots of Islamist politics. Much of this literature presents Islamist movements as angry responses to corrupt authoritarian regimes and broken moral economies in the post-oil boom era. In this view, Islam offers a culturally authentic alternative to a disinherited and disenfranchised generation
A New Theory of Urban Design
The Architecture of Militancy
capital relations in late industrializing countries. How can labor's varying responses to privatization, subsidy reduction, and other reforms that undermine long-standing state-labor relationships be explained? Why do workers develop strong collective identities and strategies in some cases but not in others? Why does militancy remain focused on workplace issues in some cases while elsewhere it takes up broader social and political grievances? Mo…
Labour Code Reform in Tunisia
While most scholarship on the politics of economic reform focuses on issues such as privatization, trade liberalization and subsidy reduction, some of the most important and interesting reforms concern labour codes. Because these reforms involve actors outside of 'the state', they shed light on political dynamics that other reform issues do not. They also raise powerful questions about the kind of political economy that state, labour and capital …
A Result in Visual Aesthetics
Subjects were given eight forms and asked to sort them in a number of ways on the basis of overall similarity; they were also asked to state the order of their preferences among the forms. From the data generated, four tentative results emerged: By giving ourselves an appropriate verbal set, we can make ourselves see (and categorize) a group of forms in many different ways. It appears, however, that there is a natural way of categorizing them whi…
The Origin of Creative Power in Children
THE ORIGIN OF CREATIVE POWER IN CHILDREN Get access Christopher Alexander Christopher Alexander Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 2, Issue 3, July 1962, Pages 207–226, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjaesthetics/2.3.207 Published: 01 July 1962
Notes on the Synthesis of Form
A Pattern Language
A New Theory of Urban Design
Award Recipients
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Back from the Democratic Brink
Christopher Alexander, Back from the Democratic Brink: Authoritarianism and Civil Society in Tunisia, Middle East Report, No. 205, Middle East Studies Networks: The Politics of a Field (Oct. - Dec., 1997), pp. 34-38
The Social History of Labor in the Middle East
The social history of labour in the Ottoman Empire - 1800-1914, Donald Quataert the labour movement in Turkey - labour pains, maturity, metamorphosis, Gunseli Berik and Cihan Bilginsoy making history, but not of their own choosing - workers and the labour movement in Iran, Valentine M. Moghadam labour in Syria - the emergence of new identities, Elisabeth Longuenesse the labour movement in Israel - ideology and political economy, Michael Shalev re…
Taking Research Findings Beyond the Journals
Opportunities, Organizations, and Ideas
Since the late 1970s, a voluminous body of scholarship has examined the socio-economic roots of Islamist politics. Much of this literature presents Islamist movements as angry responses to corrupt authoritarian regimes and broken moral economies in the post-oil boom era. In this view, Islam offers a culturally authentic alternative to a disinherited and disenfranchised generation
Labour Code Reform in Tunisia
While most scholarship on the politics of economic reform focuses on issues such as privatization, trade liberalization and subsidy reduction, some of the most important and interesting reforms concern labour codes. Because these reforms involve actors outside of 'the state', they shed light on political dynamics that other reform issues do not. They also raise powerful questions about the kind of political economy that state, labour and capital …
The Architecture of Militancy
capital relations in late industrializing countries. How can labor's varying responses to privatization, subsidy reduction, and other reforms that undermine long-standing state-labor relationships be explained? Why do workers develop strong collective identities and strategies in some cases but not in others? Why does militancy remain focused on workplace issues in some cases while elsewhere it takes up broader social and political grievances? Mo…
The Arab Revolts
The Role of Technology in Improving Access to Justice for Victims of Family Violence
In Australia, domestic and family violence (DFV) is a major health and human rights issue. Technology is increasingly being recognised as an important tool to assist victims/survivors of DFV in accessing legal services, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. Technology has been rapidly rolled out to assist victims/survivors obtain legal advice and protection orders, and to participate in judicial processes. This article focuses on the experienc…
A new approach to a wicked problem
Food insecurity is a complex societal problem that disproportionately impacts households with children and those led by minoritized populations, with negative impacts on health across the life course. System to Achieve Food Equity adapted the learning systems model, used to address similarly complex problems, to tackle food insecurity at a neighborhood level. SAFE, born out of the COVID-19 pandemic, leverages a family-centered, community-based, c…
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