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The Deeper Order of Cities

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The Deeper Order of Cities Small-scale urban planning coupled with decentralized, interactive local governance can enable patterns to emerge into a more complex form of citymaking. Joni Baboci Photo by Carles Rabada Author: Joni Baboci Affiliation: getlayer.xyz Twitter: @dbaboci Date: November 12, 2021 Whenever possible translate your building program into a building complex, whose parts manifest the actual social facts of the situation. At low densities, a building complex may take the form of a collection of small buildings connected by arcades, paths, bridges, shared gardens, and walls. At higher densities, a single building can be treated as a building

Whenever possible translate your building program into a building complex, whose parts manifest the actual social facts of the situation. At low densities, a building complex may take the form of a collection of small buildings connected by arcades, paths, bridges, shared gardens, and walls. At higher densities, a single building can be treated as a building complex, if its important parts are picked out and made identifiable while still part of one three-dimensional fabric. - Christopher Alexander, A Pattern Language The practice of urban planning often boils down to a set of top-down choices

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