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The Berkeley Rose-Shattuck protesters' mechanistic arguments (parking, pollution) were a disguised expression of the objectively shareable feeling that the building was not harmonious with the neighborhood

Case study illustrating how Cartesian epistemological constraints force people to translate phenomenological observations into mechanistic language to gain legitimacy

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Observation of a person's inner state of wholeness can give reliable and objective information about the objective living character of systems in the external world
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Central claim of the chapter: what appears subjective (inner feeling) is actually an objective measuring instrument for external reality

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Berkeley Rose-Shattuck apartment building controversy, 1989–1992
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Case study where over 100 residents expressed phenomenological objections in mechanistic terms due to lack of scientific legitimacy for felt observations

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Berkeley architecture students did not genuinely like their own buildings in the ordinary sense that one likes a hamburger or a rose.claim0.744
Alexander's diagnosis at the architecture jury; he led students to admit that they had never been taught to like what they make.
Dan Solomon felt the generative sequence was an offense against architects and abrogated individual freedom of expression, directly opposing its inclusion in the Pasadena ordinance.claim0.726
Real historical incident showing the resistance to generative sequences within the architectural profession, which Alexander interprets as a misperception that denies the real freedom to create living structure.
A roughly bent S-curve of cardboard placed at the Berkeley house entrance showed noticeably more life potential than a straight approach, demonstrable even at rough mockup stagefinding0.721
Design process case study showing the wholeness criterion operates effectively at early rough mockup stages
The closure of the Building Process program at UC Berkeley was caused by the incommensurability of the new paradigm with prevailing architectural assumptions.claim0.714
Attributes the program's demise to a paradigm clash, consistent with Kuhn's theory.
The building must not shout. Emotionally, it must be completely quiet.quote0.709
Succinct description of the required emotional state of a living building.
The health or lack of health of various places in a neighborhood, meter by meter, is widely recognized, felt more or less the same by everyone, and is an objective reality — not a matter of opinionclaim0.709
Alexander's assertion that neighborhood quality assessment is objective, supported by Yodan Rose's study.
When living processes are applied systematically to the public space in a human community, they will generate a system of articulated, useful, coherent, and mainly pedestrian spaces.claim0.709
Core claim about the generative power of living process on public space.
If the volume is congruent with the wholeness which existed previously in the city or on the land, a profound feeling can often come from its congruence.hypothesis0.709
The predicted outcome of a good site-design process.