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Towns and buildings can only become alive if all the people make them, sharing a common pattern language that is itself alive

Drawn from what Christopher Alexander said

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design How things should be made and judged: what makes a design good, who should do the designing, and what an interface is for.

What Christopher Alexander actually said

  1. Christopher Alexander Architect and design theorist (1936 to 2022)
    It is shown there, that towns and buildings will not be able to become alive, unless they are made by all the people in society, and unless these people share a common pattern language, within which to make these buildings, and unless this common pattern language is alive itself.

    Where this was said

    ↗A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Oxford University Press, 1977; with 5 co-authors)books.google.com

    c. 1977

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