patterns

• a [[list]].
  • #push [[map]]
    • #pull [[pattern]]
  • #pull [[a pattern language]] [[free, fair and alive]]
    • #push [[a pattern language]]
      • #1 [[independent regions]]
      • #2 [[the distribution of towns]]
      • #3 [[city country fingers]]
      • #4 [[agricultural valleys]]
      • #5 [[lace of country streets]]
      • #6 [[country towns]]
      • #7 [[the countryside]]
      • [[city]]
        • #8 [[mosaic of subcultures]]
        • [[scattered work]]
        • [[magic of the city]]
        • #11 [[local transport areas]]
      • [[grass roots]]
        • #12[[community of 7000]]
      • [[subculture boundary]]
      • [[identifiable neighborhood]]
      • #15 [[neighborhood boundary]]
    • [[networks]]
      • #16 [[web of public transportation]]
      • [[ring roads]]
      • [[network of learning]]
      • [[web of shopping]]
      • #20 [[mini buses]]
    • [[policy]]
      • #21 [[four story limit]]
      • [[nine per cent parking]]
      • [[parallel roads]]
      • [[sacred sites]]
      • [[access to water]]
      • [[life cycle]]
      • #27 [[men and women]]
    • [[local centers]]
      • #28 [[eccentric nucleus]]
      • [[density rings]]
      • [[activity nodes]]
      • [[promenade]]
      • [[shopping street]]
      • [[night life]]
      • #34 [[interchange]]
    • [[housing clusters]]
      • #35 [[household mix]]
      • [[degrees of publicness]]
      • [[house cluster]]
      • [[row houses]]
      • [[housing hill]]
      • #40 [[old people everywhere]]
    • [[work community]]
      • #41 [[work community]]
      • [[industrial ribbon]]
      • [[university as a marketplace]]
      • [[local town hall]]
      • [[necklace of community projects]]
      • [[market of many shops]]
      • [[health center]]
      • [[housing in between]]
    • [[informal networks]]
      • #49 [[looped local roads]]
      • [[t junctions]]
      • [[green streets]]
      • [[network of paths and cars]]
      • [[main gateways]]
      • [[road crossing]]
      • [[raised walk]]
      • [[bike paths and racks]]
      • #57 [[children in the city]]
    • [[public open land]]
      • #58 [[carnival]]
      • [[quiet backs]]
      • [[accessible green]]
      • [[small public squares]]
      • [[high places]]
      • [[dancing in the street]]
      • [[pools and streams]]
      • [[birth places]]
      • #66 holy ground
    • [[local common land]]
      • #67 [[common land]]
      • [[connected play]]
      • [[public outdoor room]]
      • [[grave sites]]
      • [[still water]]
      • [[local sports]]
      • [[adventure playground]]
      • #74 [[animals]]
    • [[family]]
      • #75 [[the family]]
      • [[house for a small family]]
      • [[house for a couple]]
      • [[house for one person]]
      • #79 [[your own home]]
    • [[workgroups]]
      • #80 [[self governing workshops and offices]]
      • [[small services without red tape]]
      • [[office connections]]
      • [[master and apprentices]]
      • [[teenage society]]
      • [[shopfront schools]]
      • #86 [[children's home]]
    • [[local shops]] and [[gathering places]]
      • #87 [[individually owned shops]]
      • [[street cafe]]
      • [[corner grocery]]
      • [[beer hall]]
      • [[traveler's inn]]
      • #92 [[bus stop]]
      • #93 [[food stands]]
      • #94 [[sleeping in public]]
    • [[buildings]]
      • [[overall arrangement]]
        • #95 [[building complex]]
        • [[number of stories]]
        • [[shielded parking]]
        • [[circulation realms]]
        • [[main building]]
        • [[pedestrian street]]
        • [[building thoroughfare]]
        • [[family of entrances]]
        • #103 [[small parking lots]]
      • [[individual position]]
        • #104 [[site repair]]
        • [[south facing outdoors]]
        • [[positive outdoor space]]
        • [[wings of light]]
        • [[connected buildings]]
        • #109 [[long thin house]]
      • [[yin and yang]]
        • #110 [[main entrance]]
        • [[half hidden garden]]
        • [[entrance transition]]
        • [[car connection]]
        • [[hierarchy of open space]]
        • [[courtyards which live]]
        • [[cascade of roofs]]
        • [[sheltering roof]]
        • #118 [[roof garden]] [[one star]]
      • [[paths and squares]]
        • #119 [[arcades]] [[two star]]
        • [[paths and goals]]
        • [[path shape]]
        • [[building fronts]]
        • [[pedestrian density]]
        • [[activity pockets]]
        • [[stair seats]]
        • #126 [[something roughly in the middle]]
      • [[gradient]]
        • #127 [[intimacy gradient]]
        • [[indoor sunlight]]
        • [[common areas at the heart]] [[two star]]
        • [[entrance room]]
        • [[the flow through rooms]]
        • [[short passages]]
        • [[staircase as a stage]]
        • [[zen view]] read
        • #135 [[tapestry of light and dark]]
      • #wip it goes to 253
    • [[filtered light]]
    • a term used by [[ward cunningham]] to refer to structure in the solution to a problem.
    • #pull [[a pattern language]]

Patterns

patterns resemble DNA, a set of instructions that are underspecified so that they can be adapted to local circumstances. "Does the DNA contain a full description of the organism to which it will give rise?" asks [[Christopher Alexander]]

– [[Free, Fair and Alive]]