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.

31 - Promenade ** Each subculture needs a center for its public life: a place where you can go to see people, and to be seen.

99 - Main Building * A complex of buildings with no center is like a man without a head.

195 - Staircase Volume * We are putting this pattern in the language because our experiments have shown us that lay people often make mistakes about the volume which a staircase needs and therefore make their plans unbuildable.

165 - Opening to the Street * The sight of action is an incentive for action. When people can see into spaces from the street their world is enlarged and made richer, there is more understanding; and there is the possibility for communication, learning.

171 - Tree Places ** When trees are planted or pruned without regard for the special places they can create, they are as good as dead for the people who need them.

63 - Dancing in the Streets * Why is it that people don't dance in the streets today?

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.

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.

26 - Life Cycle * All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players: They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages.

228 - Stair Vault * Within a building technology which uses compressive materials as much as possible, and excludes the use of wood, it is natural to build stairs over a vaulted void, simply to save weight and materials.

184 - Cooking Layout * Cooking is uncomfortable if the kitchen counter is too short and also if it is too long.

52 - Network of Paths and Cars ** Cars are dangerous to pedestrians; yet activities occur just where cars and pedestrians meet.

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.

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.

4 - Agricultural Valleys * The land which is best for agriculture happens to be best for building too. But it is limited and once destroyed, it cannot be regained for centuries.

36 - Degrees of Publicness ** People are different, and the way they want to place their houses in a neighborhood is one of the most basic kinds of difference.

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.

251 - Different Chairs People are different sizes; they sit in different ways. And yet there is a tendency in modern times to make all chairs alike.

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.

226 - Column Place * Thin columns, spindly columns, columns which take their shape from structural arguments alone, will never make a comfortable environment.

203 - Child Caves Children love to be in tiny, cave-like places.

85 - Shopfront Schools Around the age of 6 or 7, children develop a great need to learn by doing, to make their mark on a community outside the home. If the setting is right, these needs lead children directly to basic skills and habits of learning.

64 - Pools and Streams * We came from the water; our bodies are largely water; and water plays a fundamental role in our psychology. We need constant access to water, all around us; and we cannot have it without reverence for water in all its forms. But everywhere in cities water is out of reach.

86 - Children The task of looking - after little children is a much deeper and more fundamental social issue than the phrases "babysitting" and "child care" suggest.

170 - Fruit Trees * In the climates where fruit trees grow, the orchards give the land an almost magical identity: think of the orange groves of Southern California, the cherry trees of Japan, the olive trees of Greece. But the growth of cities seems always to destroy these trees and the quality

186 - Communal Sleeping In many traditional and primitive cultures, sleep is a communal activity without the sexual overtones it has in the West today. We believe that it may be a vital social function, which plays a role as fundamental and as necessary to people as communal eating.

77 - House for a Couple * In a small household shared by two, the most important problem which arises is the possibility that each may have too little opportunity for solitude or privacy.

89 - Corner Grocery * It has lately been assumed that people no longer want to walk to local stores. This assumption is mistaken.

161 - Sunny Place ** The area immediately outside the building, to the south - that angle between its walls and the earth where the sun falls - must be developed and made into a place which lets people bask in it.