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-. [[:small_target_areas|Small Target Areas]]: The multi-service center servces a target area with population of 34,000 ± 20%.
-. [[:location|Location]]: Service centers are located within two blocks of a major intersection.
-. [[:size_based_on_population|Size Based on Population]]: The total size of an MSC which services a target area of population N, is .9N square feet.
-. [[:community_territory|Community Territory]]: The service center is divided into two zones, services and community territory; community territory includes space for community projects and a public area.
-. [[:small_services_without_red_tape|Small Services without Red Tape]]: No one service has a staff size greater than 12; each service is physically cohesive and autonomous; the services are loosely organized with respect to each other.
-. [[:expansion|Expansion]]: the number of services can grow and the size of any one service can grow; but the relationship of all services to community territory does not change.
-. [[:entrance_locations|Entrance locations]]: The building's main entrances are immediately visible to a person approaching, by foot or by car, from any direction.
-. [[:parking|Parking]]: Either parking is provided for everyone [this will require .5N square feet for a target population of N], or there is emergency parking only; staff-only parking is never provided.
-. [[Arena Thoroughfare]]: There is a natural pedestrian shortcut through the MSC's community territory.
-. [[Open to Street]]: Major community projects, services and arena activities are plainly visible to passers-by, in the street.
-. [[Arena Enclosure]]: The public area is as open as possible to the world around it, while still maintaining the required Effective Temperature inside.
-. [[Locked and Unlocked Zones]]: The building is zoned according to three different time schedules: with one door closing each zone off from the next: 9am-5pm, 9am-11pm, and "always open".
-. [[All Services Off Arena]]: All services open off the public arena; their frontages are roughly equal.
-. [[Free Waiting]]: All services share a common waiting area, which contains a variety of activities; this waiting area is part of the public area.
-. [[Overview of Services]]: All of the services housed in the MSC are instantly visible to a person entering the center.
-. [[Necklace of Community Projects]]:  Small, store front type stall, organized and run by members of the community, ring the multi-service center.
-. [[Community Projects Two-Sided]]: Like store fronts, each community project opens onto the street; whenever possible, it opens onto the public space as well.
-. [[Windows Overlooking Life]]: Windows near places where people spend more than a minute or two, all look out on areas of "life".
-. [[Core Service Adjacencies]]: personnel in core services are place according to frequency of INteraction; this will typically lead to formation of three cohesive units: administration, community organization, and program-evaluation.
-. [[Activity Pockets]]: The entire edge of the arena is scallopped with pockets of activity, alternating with points of access.
-. [[Self-Service]]: The waiting area contains a self-service facility, where job listings, welfare rights information and other do-it-yourself services are open, without restriction, to the public.
-. [[Pedestrian Density in Public Places]]: If an estimated mean number of people in the arena at any given moment, is P, the size of the arean should be 150P to 300P square feet.
-. [[Entrance Shape]]: Major entrances are either deeply recessed or they stick out from the face of the building, for visibility.
-. [[Subcommittee Watchdogs]]:  Subcommittees of community residents have offices in the multi-service center; they are empowered to represent the communities interests in the center, and are set up to receive complaints and suggestions.
-. [[Building Steeped Back from Arena]]: Buildings around public courts should be raked back at an angle less than 40 degrees.
-. [[Vertical Circulation in Services]]: Services requiring space beyond that allocated to them round the arena, are directly connected to upper stories by interior stairs.
-. [[Self-Service Progression]]: Self-service begins on the street, in front of the MSC, with a "menu", which leads directly to the self-service facility.
-. [[The Intake Process]]:  Intake procedures are informally handled by field workers, in a lounge setting, near the major entrance.
-. [[Outdoor Seats]]:  Outdoor benches are arranged overlooking activity, in the sun, and protected from wind; and especially suited for old people.
-. [[Ceiling Heights]]:  Ceiling heights for all rooms and spaces are established according to the diameters of the "social bubbles" appropriate for those spaces.
-. [[Short Corridors]]: Straight corridors are never longer than 40 or 50 feet.
-. [[Child Care Position]]:  The child care stations is visible along the path from the entrance to the services.
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-References
-Alexander, Christopher, Sara Ishikawa, and Murray Silverstein. 1968. //A Pattern Language Which Generates Multi-Service Centers//. Center for Environmental Structure. http://books.google.ca/books?id=FGdPAAAAMAAJ

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