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Boosted by jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)"):
dingemansemark@scholar.social ("Mark Dingemanse") wrote:

@jonny I think you will like A Pattern Language by Alexander et al https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%5FPattern%5FLanguage

I found nothing in there about the particular type of driveway you describe —it is too opinionated and conviviality-focused for that— but still you will like it

found it a few years back when rabbitholing and it is breathtaking

Psge from Alexander et al 1977. "The process of arnvmg in a house, and leaving it, is fundamental to our daily lives; and very often it involves a car. But the place where cars connect to houses, far from being important and beautiful, is often off to one side and neglected. This neglect can wreck havoc with the circulation in the house, especially in those houses with the traditional "front door and back door" relationship. Both family and visitors tend, more and more, to come and go by car. Since people always try to use the door nearest the car (see Vere Hole, et al., "Studies of 800 Houses in Conventional and Radburn Layouts," Building Re- search Station, Carston, H erts, England, I 966), the entrance nearest the parking spot always become the main entrance"