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A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction
I want to spend time with the original argument that humane places can be described as reusable relationships without collapsing into one universal style.
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Books I like the idea of having read. Every entry earns its place with a note about why it is worth your attention.
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Seeing Like a State
A book I want nearby for its central warning—that making a system legible to an institution can erase the local knowledge that lets it work.
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The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
I keep circling this biography because infrastructure is never only concrete and steel; it is also the accumulated consequence of who gets to decide.
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