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A Pattern Language; Towns, Buildings, Construction porcelain hand as if subtly pointing towardI love this book, which I return again and again as a marvelous tool for observing and thinking about my surroundings, with a great sense of poetry to boot. Published by Oxford University Press in 1977, authors Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, and Murray Silverstein with Max Jacobson, Ingrid Fiksdahl King, Shlomo Angel) sought to identify essential, enduring design problems or "patterns" (of which they identify 253) and ways of approaching