Weinberg's Law
A Quote by Gerald Weinberg
If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.
If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.
Criticism of the grid and its difficulties was voiced from the start. Olmsted himself noted several problems that arose from the fixed dimensions of the city’s blocks: the impossibility of producing sites for very large buildings and campuses; issues of daylighting; the difficulty of creating systems of formal and symbolic hierarchy within the field of uniformity.