"At the core […] is the idea that people should design for themselves their own houses, streets and communities. This idea […] comes simply from the observation

"At the core […] is the idea that people should design for themselves their own houses, streets and communities. This idea […] comes simply from the observation that most of the wonderful places of the world were not made by architects but by the people." — Christopher Alexander et al., A Pattern Language So true, and it applies to software development as well.