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this article is part of the collection / book in progress, [[Village_Buildings|Village Buildings]]. <br/> <- Previous article [[Village_Buildings|Table of Contents]] Next article -> <br/> ▼
▲[[File:Alexander--A-Pattern-Language-book-cover.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Alexander, et al. A Pattern Language, 1977]] this article is part of the collection / book in progress, [[Village_Buildings|Village Buildings]]. <br/> <- Previous article [[Village_Buildings|Table of Contents]] Next article -> <br/>
"A '''pattern language''' is a method of describing good design practices or patterns of useful organization within a field of expertise. The term was coined by architect [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Alexander Christopher Alexander] and popularized by his 1977 book ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Pattern_Language A Pattern Language]''." Patterns "are in essence a way of capturing useful knowledge about the nature of a design problem, and expressing it in a way that can be easily shared and adapted to new contexts." (Mehaffy 2019). ▼
▲"A '''pattern language''' is a method of describing good design practices or patterns of useful organization within a field of expertise. The term was coined by architect [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Alexander Christopher Alexander] and popularized by his 1977 book ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Pattern_Language A Pattern Language]''." Patterns "are in essence a way of capturing useful knowledge about the nature of a design problem, and expressing it in a way that can be easily shared and adapted to new contexts." (Mehaffy 2019). Alexander et al's 'patterns' concept has been widely applied in software development and other fields, and inspired the invention of the wiki, by Portland programmer Ward Cunningham for the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland_Pattern_Repository Portland Patterns Repository].
[[File:APLFGR-Cover.jpg|thumb|right|250px|A Pattern Language For Growing Regions]]
With this article we are attempting to derive a pattern language to describe all ways to achieve '''housing affordability'''. Of course, affordability is not the ''only'' problem or goal people have in housing or housing policy, but it is an important one, and here we are choosing it as our lens. ▼
▲With this article we are attempting to derive a pattern language to describe all ways to achieve housing affordability. Of course, affordability is not the ''only'' problem or goal people have in housing or housing policy, but it is an important one, and here we are choosing it as our lens.
Ward Cunningham and fellow Portlander, urbanist, architectural theorist Michael Mehaffy have been working with others on a new pattern language and online pattern repository, ''A Pattern Language for Growing Regions ''(''APLGR; ''[http://www.sustasis.net/APLFGR.html draft version online], printed book forthcoming 2019). This affordability pattern language could potentially be integrated with ''APLGR, ''and others pattern languages such as a proposed "[[Portland Civic Patterns Repository]]" ''[citation needed] ''to describe approaches for civic governance and engagement.
Mehaffy talks about wikis and pattern-languages as tools for "consensus development." In that vein, I've been thinking with this book concept about how to show varied patterns - from public housing to 'abundant' market housing - as all being possible sources of or factors in affordability. As integrable, instead of conflicting, ideas/approaches.▼
▲Mehaffy talks about wikis and pattern
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