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Christopher Alexander, A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (1977)

Christopher Alexander, A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (1977)

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When urban theorists speak of "reading" the city, they usually leave the mechanics of the act to the reader's imagination. In 1977, Christopher Alexander launched himself high into the urbanist canon by taking the opposite approach, creating with his team at Berkeley's Center for Environmental Structure a set of verbal tools to make legible, discuss, a…

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