"Problem:
Just as an individual person dreams fantastic happenings to release the inner forces which cannot be encompassed by ordinary events, so too a city needs its #dreams.
Solution:
Set aside some part of the town as a #carnival - mad sideshows, tournaments, acts, displays, competitions, dancing, music, street theater, clowns, transvestites, freak events, which allow people to reveal their madness; ...
Trans, gender, archaic language Show more
... weave a wide pedestrian street through this area; run booths along the street, narrow alleys; at one end an outdoor theater; perhaps connect the theater stage directly to the carnival street, so the two spill into and feed one another." Christopher Alexander, A Pattern Language #patternlanguage #christopheralexander