There is considerable experience and literature on Pattern Languages. It took me quite a while to get my head around both terms. In the end Alexander was talking about sequences and recipes as perhaps more understandable terms.
While "language" canotes more than network, it is also harder to understand.
While "pattern" has come to mean more than "recipe" it is also harder to understand.
It is general knowledge that recipes can be used to make parts of meals, and that they can be sequenced in such a way that one supports another at the table.
Neighborhoods will benefit from access to successful vernacular Recipe Networks and records of their useful interrelationships.