Pattern language is too diffuse a term these days to be of much use
It was originally way of looking at building things naturally with human beings in mind.
Today that the demands of commerce trump pattern language as originally promulgated
Now opposed to this person-ignoring commerce is the idea of the cyber-city
The cyber-city is a cluster of cyber-communities
A cyber-community is an intentional gathering pf persons who want
to have all elements of a city within walking distance
A cyber-community is up to 10,000 persons living and working and being educated and healed within a square mile on no more than four levels
A cyber-city is a cluster of some ten cyber-communities
Cyber-cities are the human units of the global ecumenpolis
Out of the original pattern language and ecumenopolis the cyber city evolves
Ecumenopolis was the term used by the late C. A. Doxiadis to denote the coming urbanized world
Today there is a confusion about what a city is
People still believe that cities should be ranked by their greatness
and that only such great cities can actually be real cities
The truth today is that any place can be a city
And should
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