"How Buildings Learn" - Stewart Brand

[Prince George]

I'm a big fan of the book, and I just learned that there was also a TV series made of it, with the author presenting. The theme of the book is investigating how buildings are adapted over time by their occupants and examining which buildings do this well and which badly. It made a big impression on me, in particular clarifying for me that both strict heritage preservation and monolithic developments could actually be two aspects of the same problem: they can both dictate that things must be a certain way, reducing the ways that places and people can adapt and evolve. I haven't seen this series yet, but I'm such a fan of the book that I'll give it a big recommendation anyway.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 486210852#

(That link is to the first episode, links to the other 5 are all on the page)