Medieval Fantasy City Generator by watabou
Procedurally generated medieval town plans. Pick a size and then have some fun with the “warp” option.
Le Corbusier: How A Utopic Vision Became Pathological In Practice | Orange Ticker
Through planning and architectural design, Le Corbusier hoped to create a scientifically rational and comprehensive solution to urban problems in a way that would both promote democracy and quality of life. For him, the factory production process applied to high-rise buildings with prefabricated and standardized components is the most modern and egalitarian of urban forms.
Something something top-down design systems.
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Weft. — Ethan Marcotte
I think we often focus on designing or building an element, without researching the other elements it should connect to—without understanding the system it lives in.
Patterns Day 2017: Paul Lloyd on Vimeo
Paul pulls no punches in this rousing talk from Patterns Day.
The transcript is on his site.
Fantasies of the Future / Paul Robert Lloyd
Paul has published the slides and transcript of his knock-out talk at Patterns Day. This a must-read: superb stuff!
Design systems are an attempt to add a layer of logic and reasoning over a series decisions made by complex, irrational, emotional human beings. As such, they are subject to individual perspectives, biases, and aspirations.
How does the culture in which they are made effect the resulting design?
Designing Systems, Part 3: Components and Composition / Paul Robert Lloyd
Paul finishes up his excellent three part series by getting down to the brass tacks of designing and building components on the web …and in cities. His closing provocation has echoes of Heydon’s rallying cry.
If you missed the other parts of this series, they are:
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The death and social life of great American cities’ small urban spaces is here for you to use.