But this sense of wholeness is lacking in modern urban design,with architects absorbed in problems of individual structures, and city planners preoccupied with local ordinances, it is almost impossible to achieve.In this groundbreaking volume, the newest in a highly-acclaimed series by the Center for Environmental Structure, architect and planner Christopher Alexander presents a new theory of urban design which attempts to recapture the process by which cities develop organically. The venerable cities of the past, such as Venice or Amsterdam, convey a feeling of wholeness, an organic unity that surfaces in every detail, large and small, in restaurants, shops, public gardens, even in balconies and ornaments.
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