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A Pattern Language er en av de to søylene vi må bygge en ny sivilisasjon på, den andre søyla er
Det biologiske mennesket av Terje Bongard. Først må man få innført lommedemokratiet, så kan vi ta fatt på å bygge et nytt mønstersamfunn gjennom alexandrinske mønstre. Men dette blir litt av en jobb!
Venezia må være vår inspirasjon, da man intet sted som her finner en slik rikdom av alexandrinske mønstre og designteknologi. Selvsagt, i framtida skal Skreia ikke stå noe tilbake for Venezia, dette betyr naturligvis av Fossenfeltet må jevnes med jorda, så får vi ta utgangspunkt i de ytterst få fragmentene som er tilbake av våre forfedres herlige urbane landsby ved Kværnumsstrykene. Skal man få bukt med flytrafikken, må man gjøre det like attraktivt å være hjemme, som å reise til Venezia!
Vi har nå kommet til veis ende med vårt sivilisasjonsprosjekt, hele Mjøslandet er dødt, alle våre urbane sentra har blitt meningsløse, og selv Olterudelva som kaster seg så vilt ned fra Totenåsen når man beskuer et av verdens mektigste kulturlandskap fra Neshøgda, har tapt sin kultur og mistet himmelengene sine. Så alt er kjørt til bunns, vi har ingenting tilbake, alle spor av urban og rural kultur er utslettet.
Dette fordi vi bygde vår sivilisasjon på de to søylene kapitalisme og modernisme. De hadde ingen bærekraft. Derfor har vår sivilisasjon nå kollapset.
Alexander has this covered: “A typical suburban subdivision with private lots opening off streets almost confines children to their houses. Parents, afraid of traffic or of their neighbors, keep their small children indoors or in their own gardens: so the children never have enough chance meetings with other children of their own age to form the groups which are essential to a healthy emotional development.”
A key word here is chance. In the age of activities, even casual interactions between children often get scheduled, but the dream for parents and children is to be able to step outside and play ... wherever, with whomever.
It isn’t just children and parents who would benefit from this common space. One of the most romantic things about romantic comedies is the fantasy that your Get-A-Grip-Friend can just pop over at any time. I’d love to be able to talk to my best friend over the backyard fence now, perhaps with a glass of wine. Another pattern stresses the importance of multigenerational living, Pattern 40, “Old People Everywhere.” Yet another, Pattern 27, “Men and Women,” asserts that both men and women must influence all parts of the city, rather than the dominant postwar sex-segregated geography of men working downtown office jobs and women running family life in the suburbs.
The authors write in the first section, “no pattern is an isolated entity… When you build a thing you cannot merely build that thing in isolation, but must also repair the world around it.” The reverse could be true as well. If you isolate people spatially, interpersonal relationships may also fall apart. - Naomi Elliott
At the largest scale, “A Pattern Language” concerns itself with regional planning. But, Alexander cautions, a region (or a city or town) cannot be planned all at once, either by laws or a central authority. This was the chief takeaway from his 1965 essay, “The City is Not A Tree,” which is his second-most-quoted work. He talks about how the historical, organic city is not a bounded entity that grows in a predictable way. Leaders may set patterns for it, but those patterns change over time in reaction to cultural, physical and environmental change. The tree encounters other trees. Branching happens in three dimensions, rather than on a linear and two-dimensional flow chart.
Alexander stacks the deck with three patterns, grouped together, that provide a rough sketch of a livable city: Pattern 9, “Scattered Work”; Pattern 10, “Magic of the City”; and Pattern 11, “Local Transport Areas.” In an ideal city, people do not have to spend too much time in their cars.
Alexander wrote, “Cars give people wonderful freedom and increase their opportunities. But they also destroy the environment, to an extent so drastic that they kill all social life.”
What is startling is how closely the language in these patterns follows our own debates, four decades later. He tells us we should take a 20 minute walk everyday for our health. He says speed is what makes cars dangerous in neighborhoods. He says “the use of cars has the overall effect of spreading people out, and keeping them apart.” - Naomi Elliott
- Let Christopher Alexander design your life
Like Venice is a living Pattern Language :-) I Love the Pattern Language, like I love Venice. The most walkable and beautiful city on Earth.
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People who love cars hate Venice, and as so they are not human, like their cars are not human.
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At the international Walk21 conference this week in Vancouver, British Columbia, an eminent authority on streets boiled the walkability of cities down to the number of street intersections per square mile.
Venice has 1,725 intersections per square mile. “It’s very complex, it’s very messy, and people walk,” said Allan Jacobs, urban design consultant, former San Francisco planning director, and author of Great Streets.
Brasilia, near the opposite end of the spectrum, “has 92 intersections, and you don’t walk there,” The Vancouver Sun reported Jacobs as saying. “Irvine, California is the classic automobile city. It has just 15 intersections, the lowest I’ve ever counted.”
Other places that are good for pedestrians, Jacobs said, include the Market Street area of San Francisco (300 intersections per square mile), Tokyo (988), Savannah, Georgia (538), Portland, Oregon (341), and Paris (281).
The most complex and messy stret patterns provide the most walkable and enjoyable experiences for both visitors and residents, according to Jacobs.”
– ‘Messy’ street patterns boost walking
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The world's first Jewish ghetto, from where the word ghetto origins. A really nice place to stay, with a very special atmosphere.
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