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A wide green swath flanking the road, forming a smooth green valley, would be a large boundary contributing to the vision of the whole.

Sixth morphological ripple proposed for the canyon.

Neighborhood — ranked by edge-count

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Chapter 9: **The Whole
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This chapter argues that every step in a living process must enhance the whole, using examples from drawing, zoning, St. Mark's Square, canyon design, and painting.

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Green areas will be mixed in size, and all positive; gray areas partly surround green areas.claim0.778
Description of the topological invariants produced by the process.
Boundaries and hairlines, by both separating and uniting adjacent colors, intensify the light and form larger wholes.claim0.738
A second change to the canyon would be to reveal the landform of the hills by trimming, so the whole shape becomes graspable as a living whole.claim0.736
Second global feature for Claremont Canyon.
Repeated use of the fundamental process will typically generate irregular streets following contours, polygonal lots, long-narrow houses adjusted to lot lines, positively-shaped gardens, and overall lot designs composed of separate adjacent portionsclaim0.731
Alexander's enumeration of the predictable morphological outcomes of the dynamic process across scales.
Adding a secondary system of narrow connecting streets and paths made every bit of space more animated (Parkstadt model)finding0.729
Working with the model of space alone at Parkstadt, introducing smaller passages connecting courtyards into a coherent secondary grid increased life and spatial animation throughout.
The street is not a thing to drive through, but a series of spaces which are the places where you most want to be.claim0.728
Redefines the street from a transportation corridor to a sequence of beloved public rooms
We human beings will have achieved the structure-preserving unfolding achieved by flowers and grasses on a hillside.claim0.727
Aspirational claim about the future capacity to create as nature does.
It is, indeed, this pattern of the middle-sized entities, which most strongly gives overall geometric order to the building. Without it, a building is very unlikely to be beautiful.claim0.727
Identifies the pattern of middle-range entities as the primary source of overall geometric order and beauty