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The Village Canon

Steven Deobald Member Profile All Messages By This Member #9 Obviously any sensible village, town, or city will have a full-blown public library. But I'm curious what you folks would put in a curated library specifically targeting the development and advancement of the Village on its way to becoming a City (and beyond). The Canon would obviously be crossdisciplinary, but I'm guessing Architecture, Engineering, and the Social Sciences might get a special focus. I don't think there is a canonical text on off-grid and micro-grid architecture yet, which means there's certainly a gap to be filled. But here are a few of my picks: - The Timeless Way of Building - A Pattern Language - Hackers - Palaces for the People [1] - Factfulness - Hidden Life of Trees [2] - Inner Life of Animals [2] - The Giving Tree - Sapiens / Homo Deus / 21 Lessons - Everyware - The Knowledge (Dartnell) - The Way to Ultimate Calm - Not Always So - Tao Te Ching (Gia Fu Feng) - The Little Prince - Winnie the Pooh What's on your list you wish everyone in your town would read? -steven [1] Not a great book but I'm not sure there's any better resource on the topic. [2] The writing is terrible. Are there better alternatives that cover the same breadth of material? I'd love to replace these.
preethi g All Messages By This Member #10 If I may add another book to this list Scale:?The Universal Laws of Life and Death in Organisms, Cities and Companies - Geoffrey West The books delves into the logarithmic?scaling laws that govern everything around us starting with simpler biological systems (aging and death, metabolic rates, capillary diameters etc..) to progressively more complicated systems - cities and companies (innovation, bus routes, creatively, number of patents) It feels like an important book to add to this Canon.? Regards preethi? toggle quoted message Show quoted text On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 9:25 AM Steven Deobald <steven@...> wrote: Obviously any sensible village, town, or city will have a full-blown public library. But I'm curious what you folks would put in a curated library specifically targeting the development and advancement of the Village on its way to becoming a City (and beyond). The Canon would obviously be crossdisciplinary, but I'm guessing Architecture, Engineering, and the Social Sciences might get a special focus. I don't think there is a canonical text on off-grid and micro-grid architecture yet, which means there's certainly a gap to be filled. But here are a few of my picks: - The Timeless Way of Building - A Pattern Language - Hackers - Palaces for the People [1] - Factfulness - Hidden Life of Trees [2] - Inner Life of Animals [2] - The Giving Tree - Sapiens / Homo Deus / 21 Lessons - Everyware - The Knowledge (Dartnell) - The Way to Ultimate Calm - Not Always So - Tao Te Ching (Gia Fu Feng) - The Little Prince - Winnie the Pooh What's on your list you wish everyone in your town would read? -steven [1] Not a great book but I'm not sure there's any better resource on the topic. [2] The writing is terrible. Are there better alternatives that cover the same breadth of material? I'd love to replace these.
Steven Deobald Member Profile All Messages By This Member #11 开云体育 This came up today as I was thinking about something else I'll send to the list shortly: "In Praise of Idleness" - Bertrand Russell I actually don't particularly recommend the title essay. It's fine, but not the material I'm thinking of. The rest of the essays all tie into one another in a very cohesive way and I think Russell's perspective is a helpful one -- he wrote most of these essays during the uptick of the industrial revolution, long before women entered the workplace and quite a while before the American nuclear family was decided on as the go-to social structure for societies in Level 4 countries. I don't necessarily agree with Russell's ideas but I think they're worth considering, piecemeal, when evaluating how we want to build our homes, feed our families, and raise our kids. -s On 2020-03-30 5:21 p.m., preethi g wrote: toggle quoted message Show quoted text If I may add another book to this list Scale:?The Universal Laws of Life and Death in Organisms, Cities and Companies - Geoffrey West The books delves into the logarithmic?scaling laws that govern everything around us starting with simpler biological systems (aging and death, metabolic rates, capillary diameters etc..) to progressively more complicated systems - cities and companies (innovation, bus routes, creatively, number of patents) It feels like an important book to add to this Canon.? Regards preethi? On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 9:25 AM Steven Deobald <steven@...> wrote: Obviously any sensible village, town, or city will have a full-blown public library. But I'm curious what you folks would put in a curated library specifically targeting the development and advancement of the Village on its way to becoming a City (and beyond). The Canon would obviously be crossdisciplinary, but I'm guessing Architecture, Engineering, and the Social Sciences might get a special focus. I don't think there is a canonical text on off-grid and micro-grid architecture yet, which means there's certainly a gap to be filled. But here are a few of my picks: - The Timeless Way of Building - A Pattern Language - Hackers - Palaces for the People [1] - Factfulness - Hidden Life of Trees [2] - Inner Life of Animals [2] - The Giving Tree - Sapiens / Homo Deus / 21 Lessons - Everyware - The Knowledge (Dartnell) - The Way to Ultimate Calm - Not Always So - Tao Te Ching (Gia Fu Feng) - The Little Prince - Winnie the Pooh What's on your list you wish everyone in your town would read? -steven [1] Not a great book but I'm not sure there's any better resource on the topic. [2] The writing is terrible. Are there better alternatives that cover the same breadth of material? I'd love to replace these.

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