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71 — Christopher Alexander — 2/2 — Pattern Language

About Buildings + Cities

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What's New Urbanism?

Some of his patterns are things that have existed for a long time, and some of them are things that didn't exist when he wrote this book. And they come from, I guess, ideas that were around. He recognizes that people like cars and that they're not going to be gotten rid of. Another problem is how do people and groups retain a specific subcultural identity within the wider city? Then also how large... What are the trade-offs between the size and excitement that a larger settlement brings? The loss of immediate connection and political agency in the size of a settlement.

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