Half as many people will not support half as many enterprises In a given geographical territory, half as many people will not support half as many such enterprises spaced at twice the distance. When distance inconvenience sets in, the small, the various and the personal wither away. Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities densitydistancegeographybusinesseconomics
How Buildings Learn A Book by Stewart Brand Shearing layers of change State of the WindowsThe modern infrastructural idealThe Metabolist philosophy timearchitecturebuildingchange