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Home RecentChanges SandBox Forum Search Contributors Projects GartenPlan MIR AllFolders AllPages Help Preferences EditPage				Difference (last edit) (Author, normal page display) Changed: 1,98c1 Editor FranzNahrada (This is an ambitious project. Its still in the early beginnings! We might do other pattern languages first, for example that of VideoBridging) ==What is a pattern language?= Pattern Languages seem to be a good way to describe a complex reality. The term is used for collection of various concepts and elements of reality that work harmoniously together cocreating individual structures: http://www.conservationeconomy.net The Term "Pattern Language" was coined by Christopher Alexander. Christopher Alexander was born in Vienna, Austria in 1936. He is Professor in the Graduate School and Emeritus Professor of Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley. "A Pattern Language", a seminal work that was one of the first complete book ever written in hypertext fashion, appeared in 1977 at Oxford university Press. A small group of enthusiasts in Vienna have also made the book available in German. But you can go and read the book online! See: * http://www.patternlanguage.com/ (Membership required) * a childs story of pattern language === Why Pattern Language for Global Villages? == From "Independent Regions" to "Mosaic of Subcultures" much is been said in Christopher Alexanders work that applys 100% to GlobalVillages. But not enough to describe this unique new form of human settlement. (something close is also P.M.s unique Pattern Language "Bolo'Bolo", which translates roughly as "The Life Maintaining Neighbourhoods" and which is one the most visionary books I have ever read. Here we see a world created on the base of working neighborhoods, yet with too little emphasis on the irreversible and positive changes technology has brought to our lives.) My deepest thanks go to Tony S. Gwilliam who has written the first, yet unpublished book on Global Villages "Bring Your Mind Home". Many of the patterns are his discovery. * http://www.tonygwilliam.com/book/Bring-Your-Mind-Home-I.pdf * http://www.tonygwilliam.com/book/Bring-Your-Mind-Home-II.pdf * http://www.tonygwilliam.com/book/Bring-Your-Mind-Home-III.pdf So here is the very first sketch of a pattern list. Use the space below the list to comment and suggest: A - Planetary Patterns relevant to GlobalVillages * Global Consensus about Unity and Diversity * Space of Flows * Bioregions * Cultural Landscapes * Automation and Standards * Inventories and Repositories * Networks and Noospheres * Governance and Borders * Corporations and Communities * Individuals A1 - Superregional Patterns relevant to Global Villages * Mothercities * Grids B - Regional Patterns relevant to Global Villages * Water * Resource Management (Material Brokerage) * Mobility * Small Town in Global Networks * Managing the Mosaic C - Local Patterns relevant to Global Villages * GlobalVillage * The Cultural * The Natural * Agrotectures * The Housing Spectrum * The Global District * The Spiritual District * Greenways * Service Ways D - Elements of the Global Village * The House of Knowledge * The House of Tools * The Piazza * The Matter-Energy-Information Cycle ==Comments and Suggestions:== see: ThisWiki:APatternLanguageForGlobalVillages see: ThisWiki:APatternLanguageForGlobalVillages