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From: Franz Nahrada

Sent: Friday, December 31, 2004 4:08 PM

To: globalvillages

 

Hello Kevin,

 

Thanks for using the GlobalVillages Wiki!!

 

its good that this is becoming a repository of thoughts concerning the development of cities and villages in the information age which can help all of us develop their thoughts.

 

Anyway, I have to work out some hints to drop stuff at the right place to keep things coherent.

 

The main guideline and structural element of the wiki is the table of content.

 

http://www.globalvillages.info/index.php/GlobalVillages/TableOfContents

 

The pages you put in the Wiki seem to me a bit misplaced.

 

This means not that the information is irrelevant, but that they should be linked differently.

 

Context is even more relevant than content here.

 

For example, I do not know why you link to the "EmergentPhenomena" page from Patterns (APatternLanguageForGlobalVillages). It almost seems like an ironic contradiction to me. I have understood that the content of EmergentPhenomena is almost an antithesis to the pattern concept.

 

That's fine with me and antithesis is always productive!!! But it should go to the right place. "Patterns" are "carefully crafted essays about particular problems and a kind of solution which can be intended and also graphically described."

 

http://www.globalvillages.info/index.php/GlobalVillages/WhatIsAPattern

 

According to the TOC, to host such an antithesis,  we would need to open a general discussion space about the values of intended patterns and the driving forces of development for cities and villages. So to conclude, I encourage you and all of us to not just dump links and information there, but make it relevant to the context of globalvillages.

 

Another example:

 

PeterBurgess, BurgessNetwork and LeeThorn could be linked from here: GlobalVillages/TableOfContents

 

"- Some Networks - The people and organizations which are doing things important for Global Villages".

 

Thank you all for working on common thoughtspaces and keeping them useful!

 

Franz