In their ‘new pattern language’, a hybrid of Alexander’s, architect Michael Mehaffy and colleagues switch focus to economics and community development practice.
>*Growing regions* wiki 
Framework - Zones of focus in 'Growing Regions'
They adopt Alexander’s larger-scale patterns of built environment and region (‘patterns of scale’), .. then focus on the network-structures involved in urban development practice (‘patterns of multiple scale’), and .. the kinds of organising and practice (‘patterns of process’) that constitute generative practice and community ‘weight’ in processes at municipal level.
Their patterns of network include a family of patterns of affordance (“build in user capacity to shape the environment”).
The patterns of process include a family of patterns of place governance (eg “The governance of *Polycentric Region* and all of their components also needs a corresponding polycentric (many-centered) structure”).
There are 80 patterns in this frame - 40 of them common with Alexander’s language.