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I haven't heard of this book, is it actually about designing cities? I'm probably way off but all I can't think of is that once we started designing cities we b
by bennysomething 5y ago
I haven't heard of this book, is it actually about designing cities? I'm probably way off but all I can't think of is that once we started designing cities we built crap. Take the UK for example all its beautiful amazing places were built before we had planning offices. They seem to just have evolved.
- gumby 5y agoNo, houses. Each "chapter" is just a page (well both sides of a leaf), sort of like The Society of Mind. One example is (paraphrased) "find the nicest spot on the property and don't build on it, because then you'll lose it". Another is "corridors are dead spaces; you move through them, and pretty much ignore them, on your way to do something". Not gospel or absolute rules; rather rules of thumb, or ways to talk about and think about what we wanted to accomplish.
- bennysomething 5y agoThanks, that sounds really interesting.
- Turing_Machine 5y agoIf you're interested in his thoughts on cities, have a look at his "A City is not a Tree". https://www.patternlanguage.com/archive/cityisnotatree.html https://www.patternlanguage.com/archive/cityisnotatree.html