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A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
Christopher Alexander • 1 highlight
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Frequent meetings in connection with daily activities increase chances of developing contacts with neighbors, a fact noted in many surveys. With frequent meetings friendships and the contact network are maintained in a far simpler and less demanding way than if friendship must be kept up by telephone and invitation. If this is the case, it is often
... See moreJan Gehl • Life Between Buildings: Using Public Space
Looking at city neighborhoods as organs of self-government, I can see evidence that only three kinds of neighborhoods are useful: (1) the city as a whole; (2) street neighborhoods; (and 3) districts of large, subcity size, composed of 100,000 people or more in the case of the largest cities. Each of these kinds of neighborhoods has different functi
... See moreJane Jacobs • The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Neighborhoods can be networks of support in situations both banal and extreme.
Jenny Odell • How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
There's a Neighbor for That: On Civic Associations as a Social Technology
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To make that connection we usually have to look at the system of interaction between individuals and their environment, that is, between individuals and other individuals or between individuals and the collectivity.