Pattern Language is Christopher Alexander’s concept of a world that works for all people because architecture, design, planning and building are based on what people are drawn to naturally, and public spaces are made stimulating and accessible by foot.
Getting people to understand this alternative to metrosprawl is a Promethean task. Getting the Obama administration to understand why this widely ignored and buried thinking is the essential missing link in all the talk of “economic” recovery is utterly necessary if we are to have change that will actually work for everyone.
Here is the online site I find to be the most useful presentation of pattern language. SOURCE
Here is an annotated WordPress link to many if not all the pattern language posts on this blog and a few on other blogs. SOURCE
Note that each of these Pattern Language Primers was posted at Huffington Post, but that with few exceptions these posts have been buried, the process by which Huffington Post decides not to feature a post but rather to let it fall off the page after a few hours.
Here are pattern language posts which relate to human settlements. SOURCE
Here are pattern language posts relating to automobiles. SOURCE
More on Pattern Language:
See the brief at http://stephencrose.wordpress.com/pattern-language/ and then read in sequence:
Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four,, Part Five, Part Six, Part Seven, Part Eight, Part Nine, Part Ten, Part Eleven, Part Twelve, Part Thirteen, Part Fourteen
Deborah Born said,
July 13, 2009 at 2:04 pm
This sounds like the best of a medieval village. I am going to get the book when I walk to the library. I have always felt that there was something terribly wrong in our way of zoning all shops out of a neighborhood. Right now I live in an old suburban area smack dab in the middle. The only thing I’m close to is the library. I smashed up my car a year ago & can’t afford insurance on another.
To complicate matters further, the nearest bus stop is over 1/2 mi away & the maps on the internet, well you need a magnifying glass to read them. Sorry to go on like this but I used to live in a rural community small enough to walk just about everywhere
I have ben thinking & will continue to think about ways to work this. There is still a great deal of land available, it really comes down to capital. I thiink eventually we will get this, but we need to get the word out without pushing the “socialism” button.