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title: "Accessible Green (60)"
created: 2026-07-01
updated: 2026-07-01
type: concept
status: compiled
namespace: pattern-language
pattern_number: 60
pattern_name: "Accessible Green"
source_repository: https://github.com/zenodotus280/apl-md
source_url: https://github.com/zenodotus280/apl-md/blob/master/Patterns/Accessible%20Green%20%2860%29.md
license_note: Non-commercial reuse with attribution; see namespace README and source LICENSE.md.
related_patterns:
  - "Identifiable Neighborhood (14)"
  - "Work Community (41)"
  - "Subculture Boundary (13)"
  - "Neighborhood Boundary (15)"
  - "Quiet Backs (59)"
  - "Tree Places (171)"
  - "Positive Outdoor Space (106)"
  - "Garden Wall (173)"
  - "Holy Ground (66)"
  - "Grave Sites (70)"
  - "Local Sports (72)"
  - "Animals (74)"
  - "Sleeping in Public (94)"
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# Accessible Green (60)

> Source pattern from the abridged `apl-md` corpus. Use as a design reference and constraint seed; do not treat as commercial-clean training data.

### Problem
>People need green open places to go to; when they are close they use them. But if the greens are more than three minutes away, the distance overwhelms the need.

### Solution
>Build one open public green within three minutes’ walk—about 750 feet—of every house and workplace. This means that the greens need to be uniformly scattered at 1,500-foot intervals, through the city. Make the greens at least 150 feet across, and at least 60,000 square feet in area.

### Related Patterns
... at the heart of neighborhoods, and near all work communities, there need to be small greens - [[Identifiable Neighborhood (14)]], [[Work Community (41)]] Of course it makes the most sense to locate these greens in such a way that they help form the boundaries and neighborhoods and backs - [[Subculture Boundary (13)]], [[Neighborhood Boundary (15)]], [[Quiet Backs (59)]].

Pay special attention to old trees, look after them - [[Tree Places (171)]]; shape the green so that it forms one or more positive room-like spaces and surround it with trees, or walls, or buildings, but not roads or cars - [[Positive Outdoor Space (106)]], [[Garden Wall (173)]]; and perhaps set aside some part of the green for special community functions - [[Holy Ground (66)]], [[Grave Sites (70)]], [[Local Sports (72)]], [[Animals (74)]], [[Sleeping in Public (94)]] ...

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> [!cite]- Alexander, Christopher. _A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction_. Oxford University Press, 1977, p. 304.
> #APL/confidence/high
>
> #APL/Town-Patterns/Community-Recreation