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reviewed A pattern language by Christopher Alexander (Center for Environmental Structure)

Christopher Alexander: A pattern language (1977, Oxford University Press) 4 stars

Alexander and his co-authors present us with over two hundred (roughly 250) "patterns" that they …

Review of 'A pattern language' on 'Storygraph'

3 stars

It’s really interesting, but you get the sense that some of California’s economic quandaries around housing comes from too strong an influence of this kind of theorizing. There’s much that just feels correct, which is where the NIMBY and the YIMBLY fly in different directions like an Aristophanean tangent