URBAN PATTERN

The pattern of the city is the way how different functions and elements of the settlement form are distributed and mixed
together spatially. It can be measured by the size of its grain. Grain is fine when similar elements or functions are widely
dispersed throughout the district without forming any large clusters. On the other hand, grain is coarse if different
elements and functions are segregated from each other in a way that extensive areas of one thing are separated from
extensive areas of other things.
Christopher Alexander (1979) has developed a theory on the 'timeless way of building'. He states that patterns are a
linguistic system and calls this system 'a pattern language'. According to him, 'A pattern language is a system which allows
its users to create an infinite variety of those three dimensional combinations of patterns which we call buildings, gardens,
towns' .Alexander maintains that there is an objective difference between good and bad buildings, or good and bad
towns. He says that it is analogical to the difference between health and sickness, or to that of wholeness and dividedness.
The difference is caused by an objective quality: 'the quality without a name'. This quality is caught in one way of building-the one which has always existed. The pattern language is developed to grasp the grammar of it.