12/2/11

The world has changed since Pattern Language appeared in 1977

Beyond Pattern Language: Urban amenities everywhere: "The world has changed since Pattern Language appeared in 1977. There was a lovely site called downlode.org that explained the original patterns but it was zapped for what I regard as silly copyright reasons. All told, the only references to pattern language I see are rip-off declensions that do not relate to Alexander's subject which is the creation of human living arrangements, cities, settlements, regions - things widely ignored in contemporary thinking (or else horrendously realized with apt publicity from antedeluvian journals like the NYT)."

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