Architecture & Built Environment · Architectural Theory & Criticism
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Christopher Alexander
Living cities grow as overlapping semilattices in which any street or institution can belong to many systems at once, while planned cities are designed as strict, non-overlapping trees, and this structural impoverishment is why planned towns so often feel lifeless.
Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa & Murray Silverstein
Good places are built from a shared vocabulary of recurring, testable design solutions, 253 patterns from regions down to doorknobs, that ordinary people can use as fluently as professionals.