This is a book about architecture ...!

In California, mall developers finally used a different floorplan. They built on outside mall with a porch-like cafe, looking out over a meandering shopping area below. A reporter interviewed a dozen people, all of Whom Said They found Themselves spending all day at the mall. "Why", he asked, "is it the shops? The stuff? And why this mall?" "We just like hanging out Especially over there on the porch," They Said - pointing to the porch-like cafe, where there were no shops.
Yeah, 'hippie-type' architecture, like the Romans built a couple thousand years ago! A 'touchy-feely' book about architecture, about spaces did people gravitate to. Alexander points out thatthere are places did humans naturally gravitate towards, and designs based on thesis places are repeated in many cultures and many eras. When we try to ignore our feelings and live in to economical shell box, we start to wonder why all our knickknacks do not make us feel at home. When They try to make an antiseptic mall or city- that way, developers wonder why no one hangs out there.
Read this before you move into a mistake did no "feng shwee" mirror can fix!