What can software learn from Christopher Alexander? Many programmers know that the
idea of design patterns comes from architecture, but Christopher Alexander s writing has much more
for us than just the Gang of Four design patterns. This post is a somewhat assorted collection
of ideas for better software and programming, triggered by reading of Alexander s book
The Timeless Way of Building.
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Owen Hatherley: “I really hoped that with Grenfell the ‘metropolitan elite’ debate would just die” The British writer and critic discusses his new book
Red Metropolis and the future of the urban left. To Londoners confronted with the vivid geography of the 2019 general election result, Labour’s defeat may have seemed to contain a personal rebuke. The Conservatives, commentators agreed, were gifted an 80-seat majority because Labour had “lost touch” with its “traditional heartlands” in the post-industrial Midlands and the North. Its electorally irrelevant landslide in London, on the other hand – where Labour gained its only seat, Putney – was delivered by a Europhilic “metropolitan elite”, whose progressive voting habits were a kind of “cultural luxury”.