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artifact:back-of-the-moon-housing-project-austin-texas-1992-96Back of the Moon housing project, Austin, Texas (1992-96)
A small community of five houses around a shaped common land (the public hull) on Lake Travis, demonstrating hulls at a micro scale.
Neighborhood — ranked by edge-count
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- WholenessaboutAlexander's core concept rejecting the idea that a whole consists of parts; instead, a whole makes its parts (called 'centers').
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- How Living Process Lays The Groundwork For Coherence Of A City Through The Hulls Of Public SpacecitesChapter 3 of A Vision of a Living World, introducing the concept of hulls of public space as positive, living spaces shaped by structure-preserving transformations in urban design.