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

Shelfari edited the description of A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series) Saturday, August 1 2009.

• "Brilliant....Here's how to design or redesign any space you're living or working in--from metropolis to room. Consider what you want to happen in the space, and then page through this book. Its radically conservative observations will spark, enhance, organize your best ideas, and a wondrous home, workplace, town will result"--San Francisco Chronicle. A handbook designed for the layman which aims to present a language which people can use to express themselves in their own communities or homes, and to better communicate with each other.

Shelfari edited the contributors of A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series) Saturday, July 25 2009.

• Added a contributor: Christopher Alexander: (Primary Author)
• Added a contributor: Sara Ishikawa: (Primary None)
• Added a contributor: Murray Silverstein: (Primary None)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series) Thursday, July 16 2009.

• The first 94 patterns deal with the large-scale structure of the environment: the growth of town and country, the layout of roads and paths, the relationship between work and family, the formation of suitable public institutions for a neighborhood, the kinds of public space required to support these institutions.