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A Pattern Language Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)

Christopher Alexander

You can use this book to design a house for yourself with your family; you can use it to work with your neighbors to improve your town and neighborhood; you can use it to design an office, or a workshop, or a public building. And you can use it to guide you in the actual process of construction.

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The Ezra Klein Show

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The Ezra Klein Show

Ezra recommended A Pattern Language as a richly illustrated guide to how physical spaces influence human behavior, noting he has given away dozens of copies over the years.

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The second book I'm going to suggest is a book by the architect Christopher Alexander called A Pattern Language. It's about habitat, about what makes spaces welcoming or hostile, and it's the most bea...

— Episode: A Breath of Fresh Air With Brian Eno

Episode: A Breath of Fresh Air With Brian Eno

Ezra recommended A Pattern Language as a richly illustrated guide to how physical spaces influence human behavior, noting he has given away dozens of copies over the years.

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The second book I'm going to suggest is a book by the architect Christopher Alexander called A Pattern Language. It's about habitat, about what makes spaces welcoming or hostile, and it's the most beautiful book.

On with Kara Swisher

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On with Kara Swisher

It was mentioned as a design guide with hundreds of patterns that correlate with human flourishing; the concept of the intimacy gradient, concerning how we live and interact, was discussed as an example from the book.

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There's a wonderful book called a pattern language it was a group of architects and they spent about a decade studying our built environments to look for design patterns that seem to correlate with hu...

— Episode: Alexis Ohanian and Deb Roy on Big Tech’s...

Episode: Alexis Ohanian and Deb Roy on Big Tech’s Effects o...

It was mentioned as a design guide with hundreds of patterns that correlate with human flourishing; the concept of the intimacy gradient, concerning how we live and interact, was discussed as an example from the book.

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There's a wonderful book called a pattern language it was a group of architects and they spent about a decade studying our built environments to look for design patterns that seem to correlate with human flourishing it's like a a design guide with a set of a couple hundred patterns so one of them is called the intimacy gradient and the reason I mentioned this is it's a way that we think about taking lessons from the physical environment where we're structuring how we live and interact and how we can bring that into the the world of networks

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