One of the best books for community planning, neighborhood planning, humans living with humans in a society.
I learned why cities and villages on our planet were shaped the way they were, and what made some successful and long-lived (as in hundreds or thousands of years), and key characteristics for towns doomed to fail. A humble, insightful guy who was tapped into something really deep.
This youtuber calls this a digital book, it’s a nice little intro into some parts of A Pattern Language … words not sound, so it is kinda book-like:
I love this interview with him. It says so much about who he is and the magic he knew existed inside this human artifact called “village.”
Alexander had an offer to build an entire new village in Gujarat, India. He refused. “I knew, that the real life of a real village comes from all the people in that village… I would have made a complete mess of it.”
