The “anti-city images” Jacobs was referring to were the vast urban highways built over the last half century to enable the levels of road traffic thought to be vital to economic growth. Since Jacobs’ time, a growing chorus of urbanists from Bogota’s ex-MayorEnrique Penalosato town plann...
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(In “Do we need a Pattern Language for Smarter Cities” I suggested that “design patterns“, a tool for capturing re-usable experience invented by the town-plannerChristopher Alexander, might offer a useful way to organise our knowledge of successful approaches to “Smarter Cities”. I’m no...
(In “Do we need a Pattern Language for Smarter Cities” I suggested that “design patterns“, a tool for capturing re-usable experience invented by the town-plannerChristopher Alexander, might offer a useful way to organise our knowledge of successful approaches to “Smarter Cities”. I’m no...