Doing the deep dive into Christopher Alexander's A Pattern Language, which puts forward a theory of urban development (but also much much more). And now I'm dying to know what @davidwengrow.bsky.social has to say about it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Pattern_Language

#PatternLanguage #design #urbanplanning

A Pattern Language - Wikipedia

Naturally someone has already put the two together:

Before Design, More-than-Design: Elucidating “Ontological Design” by Cameron Tonkinwise

Open access link to the academic article: https://doi.org/10.1080/17547075.2022.2105529

#urbanplanning #urbantheory #architecture #design