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From: firth@sei.cmu.edu (Robert Firth)
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Subject: Re: SimCity
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Date: 3 Dec 90 13:26:24 GMT
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In article <40548@ut-emx.uucp> clouds@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Kathy Strong) writes:

>Has anyone here read a book called A PATTERN LANGUAGE: TOWNS, BUILDINGS,
>CONSTRUCTION, by Alexander, Ishikawa, Silverstein et al.?

I second the recommendation.  This is a marvellous book.  It remembers
and expresses what most modern design seems to have forgotten: man is
the measure of all things.