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claim: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-opinion

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 opinion

Alexander's assertion that neighborhood quality assessment is objective, supported by Yodan Rose's study.

Neighborhood — ranked by edge-count

Findings (1)

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Yodan Rose's North Beach study found high rank-order correlation (Kendall's rho) between different people's diagnoses of good and bad places along streets in North Beach, San Francisco
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Empirical evidence that neighborhood quality diagnosis is objective rather than merely a matter of opinion.

Chapters (1)

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Chapter 11: How Living Processes Must Generate Necessary Further Dynamics of Any Neighborhood Which Comes to Life
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The working unit being extracted; covers dynamic neighborhood generation, structure-preserving transformations, and case studies in Colombia, Venezuela, Israel, and San Francisco.

Related by similarity (8)

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Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

The feeling a place presents to us is a measure of its life.claim0.787
Epistemological claim that phenomenological response is the primary yardstick for evaluating living structure.
Life, as it occurs in buildings or in works of art, can be measured, but only by a method that relies on the degree of development or enlightenment of the observer.claim0.782
The fundamental methodological conclusion of the chapter.
We see then that life, as it occurs in buildings or in works of art, can be measured. But it can only be measured, or estimated, in a way which relies on the degree of development, or enlightenment, of the observer.quote0.779
A key methodological statement encapsulating the chapter's conclusion.
Schmitt (1966) found no negative correlation between neighborhood density and social indicators of mental health.finding0.775
Disconfirmation of the simplistic assumption that high density always damages mental health.
the degree of life of different things and places and events is objective - not solely in the individualquote0.774
Load-bearing assertion of objectivity, summarizing the chapter's thesis.
The feeling that there is more life in one case than another is correlated with a structural difference in the things themselves, which can be made precise and measured.claim0.771
Forward‑looking claim that the life quality has an objective basis, to be demonstrated later.
The relative percentages of the four colors largely encapsulates what is wrong with the neighborhood.claim0.770
Claim that the area proportions alone diagnose neighborhood health.
The existence of widely agreed‑upon lists of great buildings suggests a shared perception of life in buildings.claim0.769
Argues for intersubjective agreement about the quality of life.