“High buildings have no genuine advantages, except in speculative gains for banks and land owners. They are not cheaper, they do not help create open space, they destroy the townscape, they destroy social life, they promote crime, they make life difficult for children, they are expensive to maintain, they wreck the open spaces near them, and they damage light and air and view.”
Christopher Alexander - Wikiquote.
While I don’t think this is from A Pattern Language, it certainly has echoes of it. Perhaps it’s from The Timeless Way of Building. Either way, Alexander is interesting because he is concerned about people of all ages. More than a few of the patterns in APL are about children or old people or single people or families. Rather than just saying that “X what a house should be” or “Y is how people shoud live”, he considers the macro and micro and the stages of life alone and in combination.
