How Buildings Learn A Book by Stewart Brand Shearing layers of change State of the WindowsThe modern infrastructural idealThe Metabolist philosophy timearchitecturebuildingchange
The economic value of old buildings But the economic value of old buildings is irreplaceable at will. It is created by time. This economic requisite for diversity is a requisite that vital city neighborhoods can only inherit, and then sustain over the years. Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities Things that shine and glitterNew ideas must use old buildings economics