List of Patterns

See the README for an explanation and discussion about this project and how to use it.

The Patterns

A pattern language has the structure of a network. [...] The sequence of patterns is both a summary of the language, and at the same time, an index to the patterns. — p. xviii

Town Patterns

We begin with that part of the language which defines a town or community. These patterns can never be designed or built in one fell swoop — but patient piecemeal growth, designed in such a way that every individual act is always helping to create or generate these larger global patterns, will, slowly and surely, over the years, make a community that has these global patterns in it. — p. xix

Network of Lattices

Do what you can to establish a world government, with a thousand independent regions, instead of countries;

Metropolitan regions will not come to balance until each one is small and autonomous enough to be an independent sphere of culture.

Wherever possible, work toward the evolution of independent regions in the world; each with a population between 2 and 10 million; each with its own natural and geographic boundaries; each with its own economy; each a world government, without the intervening power of larger states or countries.

The Distribution of Towns (2)

Alexander, Christopher. A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction . Oxford University Press, 1977, p. 10.

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Network-of-Lattices

Regional Policies

Within each region work toward those regional policies which will protect the land and mark the limits of cities;

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