The artificial separation of houses and work creates intolerable rifts in people's inner lives. Streets Mosaic of Subcultures Scattered Work Some of Alexander's patterns identify a spectrum where there is something wrong with both extremes, and his pattern provides some guidance on how to achieve an appropriate balance between these extremes. Again, the main message that comes across is the need to avoid the extremes, rather than the rightness of a particular mid-point. Distribution of Towns Cars give people wonderful freedom and increase their opportunities. But they also destroy the environment, to an extent so drastic that they kill all social life.
People have a fundamental yearning for great bodies of water.
But the very movement of the people toward the water can also destroy the water. Access to Water Rooms which are too closed prevent the natural flow of social occasions, and the natural process of transition from one social moment to another. And rooms which are too open will not support the differentiation of events which social life requires. Cooking Layout Traditional Programming Here are some of the negative patterns that were being preached at programmers around the time I started in the computer industry. Avoid executing data Avoid hard-coding data into program Entity Modelling Information Modelling using entities and relationships can be subjected to several structural checks.