These notes are a collection of notes and annotations directly from A Pattern Language (by C. Alexander, S. Ishikawa, M. Silverstein et al.), a book setting up a design pattern and language for urban design and development.

I’ve skimmed this book a couple of times, now, but never dove in and annotated it in the way I wanted to. This collection, then, is for notes related to A Pattern Language itself. It is broken into a few sections:

  • #pattern-language is dedicated to broad notes and general insights about the text
  • Subtags are dedicated to notes about individual patterns (effectively chapters of the text). These are broken into two categories:
    • #super: If we think of an individual building as a structure, these are rules regarding superstructures — communities, neighborhoods, road systems, etc.
    • #sub: Under the same thinking, these are rules for anything related to substructures — walls, windows, doors, etc.

Annotations for individual rules will likely remain private, unless I feel they’re particularly good insights or relate directly back to any of the general insights notes.

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