In fact, as Christopher Alexander reminded us, a good city cannot be designed in a top-down fashion.

BBC: What if...you could design a city?

Around that time he was also reading A Pattern Language, by Christopher Alexander, an urban theorist who pushed for a new architecture that served various aspects of human behavior, rejecting the arbitrariness of present-day offerings.

FORBES: Brave New World

The cast as a whole is impressive, especially Jeffrey Wright and Christopher Plummer as devious Washington attorneys, Matt Damon as an energy analyst living in Geneva, and Alexander Siddig as the young prince who proves more adept at falconry than at petropolitics.

WSJ: Glib Lines in the Sand