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Craig Mecham's Sugarhouse Loop: a great idea

munsonmunson wrote 4 weeks ago: This article by Brent Pace gives us his opinion on the new Sugarhouse Loop development in Sugarhouse … more →

Tags: Transit Oriented Development, Developments, Salt Lake City, Sugarhouse Loop, Sugarhouse

Greenway in need of density

munsonmunson wrote 1 month ago: Frederick A. Kramer and Lynn Wolff bring us this article on Boston’s Rose Kennedy Greenway pro … more →

Tags: Transit Oriented Development, Developments, Boston, rose kennedy greenway, Moule & Polyzoides, density

The Nation of Commentation

jleeger wrote 1 month ago: It seems to me, more and more each day, that all recent human action is more about commentary than i … more →

Tags: wu wei, Taoism, Production, autonomy, Withdrawal, autonomy-withdrawal, Productivity, Science, reductionist

Review of Home by Yann-Arthus Bertrand6 comments

Mathieu Helie wrote 1 month ago: I often wonder if it would be possible to do any kind of serious study into urban morphology without … more →

Tags: Commentary, Green Politics, HOME Film, Physical Processes, Stephen Wolfram, The Nature of Order, Yann Arthus-Bertrand

Are We In A Permanent Recession?

stephencrose wrote 1 month ago: Are We In A Permanent Recession? Matthew Yglesias writes: … if the recession ends, then it see … more →

Tags: pattern language, Politics, Economy, Design, Matthew Yglesias, Planning, Oil, Automobile

Integral Manifesto Pt V(2) The Shape of Human Action/ Working from the Whole: A Process Methodology

bonnittaroy wrote 1 month ago: Books Discussed in this Section Eugene Gendlin (1997) A Process Model . University of Chicago Chri … more →

Tags: Integral Manifesto, Abduction, Eugene Gendlin, Loenard Susskind, perfect relation, Process, shape of human action, view from the whole, whole

Making Pattern Language Intelligible

stephencrose wrote 2 months ago: This brief history of pattern language is both interesting and a bit discouraging. It is a salient d … more →

Tags: pattern language, Politics, MIT, takashi iba, uses of oattern language

Dead Zones: Annals of Urban Disaster

stephencrose wrote 2 months ago: Here in order are three notions regarding the planning of human space — aka urban planning … more →

Tags: pattern language, Cars, Community, metrosprawl, Neighborhood, Urban Planning, zoning, Pedestrian, euclidian

This Yankees Fan Has Had Enough 2 comments

Barry Brownstein wrote 3 months ago: In his classic book on architecture The Timeless Way of Building, Christopher Alexander offered this … more →

Tags: New York Yankees, Trust, Sports, Geoff Covlin, herb brooks, 1980 Olympic U.S. hockey team, John Wooden, sidney wicks, UCLA

Pattern Language Our Advantage over China

stephencrose wrote 3 months ago: THE NEW YORK TIMES TAKE ON CHINA AS A THREAT China has been ahead of us on everything including ecob … more →

Tags: pattern language, Politics, Economy, Automobiles, China, Electric Cars, Autos

"The Nature of Order: A Vision of A Living World" by Christopher Alexander

Ann wrote 3 months ago: The last of Christopher Alexander’s books that I read.  It left me in a somewhat melancholy mo … more →

Tags: Architecture

The Journey to Emergence4 comments

Mathieu Helie wrote 3 months ago: This is part I of a series of excerpts of an article to be published in the International Journal of … more →

Tags: Theory, Building Codes, Death and Life of Great American Cities, emergence, Friedrich von Hayek, Jane Jacobs, Le Corbusier, medieval city, Modernism

How To Get The Jobs Back2 comments

stephencrose wrote 4 months ago: I have more than once insisted that things are working reasonably well considering. I assume the unt … more →

Tags: pattern language, Politics, Cars, common land, Community, Couple, Design, Family, Home

Obama Pattern Language Primer -- 14

stephencrose wrote 4 months ago: Continuing a series of looks at Christopher Alexander’s A Pattern Language. Please read Our C … more →

Tags: pattern language, Politics, obama, human settlements, Cars, Design, sustainability, President Obama, Towns

"The Nature of Order: The Phenomenon of Life" by Christopher Alexander

Ann wrote 4 months ago: Living Centers Centers arise in space and each center has life to a certain degree. It is not inhere … more →

Tags: Architecture, Life

Obama Pattern Language Primer -- 131 comment

stephencrose wrote 4 months ago: I am acutely aware, as I continue this series of looks at Christopher Alexander’s A Pattern La … more →

Tags: pattern language, Cars, common land, Community, Couple, Design, Family, Home, house

Obama Pattern Language Primer --122 comments

stephencrose wrote 5 months ago: The 12th in this series of posts built around Christopher Alexander’s A Pattern Language cont … more →

Tags: pattern language, Politics, obama, human settlements, Cars, Design, sustainability, President Obama, Towns

Obama Pattern Language Primer -- 11

stephencrose wrote 5 months ago: This is the 11th post in this effort to interest the Obama Administration in what I believe is the o … more →

Tags: pattern language, adventure, Cars, common land, Community, Design, Fountains, Graves, human settlements

Obama Pattern Language Primer -- 10

stephencrose wrote 5 months ago: Welcome to the 10th post in a sequential application of the patterns in Christopher Alexander’ … more →

Tags: pattern language, obama, human settlements, Cars, Design, sustainability, President Obama, Politics, Towns


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