71 — Christopher Alexander — 2/2 — Pattern Language
About Buildings + Cities
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I'm in Opposition to the Mainstream, Right?
In London it's much more of a sense that like you only really start participating in the life of the city once you're kind of nearing your 20s or whatever. It reminds me again of Ruskin, this sort of thing, where he's got a load of things he hates about modern life and then proposes some strange solutions to them. We shouldn't have schools we should have Autonomous classrooms spread on every street corner. That'll mean there are kids kind of distributed uniformly across the city.That will solve the problem. Yeah, I'm partly in favour of it. But not super duper helpful is it? Yes.
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