For urbanists, the patterns that have emerged can be re-used in a useful way today under the right adaptive conditions.

Where architects and urbanists have done it and still do that, they are confusing visual order with a deeper, intrinsic kind of order.

And there is at Peteghem, in Flanders, at the very spot where the Merovingian kings had their summer palace, a convent of Urbanists, the Abbey of Sainte Claire en Beaulieu, which I saved in 1793.