the ideological component sometimes doesn’t resonate; the patterns themselves, which can be used and changed regardless of ideology, seem more generally useful.
[[simon]] this is framed as one big project (the three books). what’s interesting: there is some goal of trying to provide a set of tools to shape one’s environment.
previous place had an obviously amazing view — you could see the [[sagrada familia]]
[[zen view]] is mentioned as related to this pattern, though, and it relates with something interesting that happened in the old place. the view was [[normalized]]. it became part of the background; like alexander says.
now have to go to a specific place to look at a view now.
[[q]] when trying to differentiate between the list of patterns
[[andreas]] it seems very opinionated, it depends on one’s preferences. you might not care about the misfits and have fits with your lifestyle.
[[simon]] four floors doesn’t seem high density enough for city life. attitude towards skyrises changes a lot across cultures. singapore for example has a very different disposition towards them.
most sustainable density is about six floors.
the most antisocial aspect of high rises is to have parking-lot-to-living-floor.
isolation in high rises is a big problem though.
[[andreas]] there is a huge grey area between four floors and high rises
zurich proposed having public rooftops and bike lanes between them