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Figure 2-26. The pace layers of civilization.
It's a model he used brilliantly to explain buildings - site, structure, skin, services, space plan,
stuff - and how, in time, they learn. lv It's since been adapted widely in many fields. The order of
layers affords comfort. It belies a measure of control. But all maps are traps. This is too. So,
what's the opposite of pace layers? Is it everything's intertwingled?
Figure 2-27. Everything is deeply intertwingled.
The layers exist. There are no layers. Both statements are true and useful. Everything depends
on context. In the 1990s, the design of hardware and software as separate layers was clearly the
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