![]() ![]() Due to my years spent as a software engineer, I was able to see the connections between the ideas of Jacobs and Alexander. Oddly enough, even though Alexander’s work is often neglected in his own field, among software designers he is renowned for his development of the concept of “pattern languages.” While Alexander applied the concept to buildings, neighborhoods, and cities, software “architects” were able to adapt it, with tremendous success, to software design. I discovered Alexander while proceeding along a seemingly entirely unrelated path of enquiry: my study of software design. ![]() ![]() Even earlier, I had met the ideas of the renegade architect-and notably, “renegade” only because he was too respectful of traditional building styles and techniques!-Christopher Alexander. I first encountered the work of the great urban theorist Jane Jacobs due to the influence of my friend and mentor Sanford Ikeda, who has devoted a great deal of his intellectual life to studying and expanding upon her ideas. Cities Alive: Jane Jacobs, Christopher Alexander, and the Roots of the New Urban Renaissance ![]()
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