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What is needed to support individual acts of construction is a three-dimensional diagram of the actual shape of the needed space, more physical even than a model.

The core proposal for a new form of urban plan to guide piecemeal construction.

Neighborhood — ranked by edge-count

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Families were deeply moved by identifying the wholeness of the common land (Back of the Moon)
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When the latent structure of the land was pointed out to the families, they reported being deeply moved and that seeing these natural centers completely altered their relation to the land.

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three-dimensional diagram of space
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A new kind of urban plan that emphasizes the solid shape and volume of public space, showing hulls as three-dimensional envelopes, rather than just building footprints.

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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.

In order to achieve living structure, at a certain stage, it is necessary to seize hold of the building design and force it into an almost brutal, simple, massive geometric mold.claim0.806
The chapter's central thesis: brutal geometric imposition is a necessary phase in achieving living structure
The act of division, creating upper and lower zones, determining proportions of what lies below and what lies above, makes an intervention in the potential field that is as profound as any other act of creation.claim0.794
Raises spatial division to a foundational creative gesture.
Only a deliberate process of creating being-like centers in built structure throughout the world encourages the world to become more alive.claim0.794
Proposition 4 of the Mid-Book Appendix; the normative and practical conclusion tying individual search for the true self to the creation of a living world.
The structures needed for our belonging — both private and public — can be generated almost without effort, autonomously, by any truly living process allowed to exist in society.claim0.791
Optimistic assertion that living process effortlessly brings forth the spatial conditions for belonging
The structures where life occurs just cannot be made in any other way — it is a categorical and mathematical must.claim0.787
In order to make buildings by unfolding - hence by structure-preserving transformations - it is necessary, truly, to pay attention to the wholeness in the world. This 'paying attention to the wholeness' is essentially synonymous with love of life.quote0.786
Connection between process, attention, and love.
It is theoretically impossible to build a successful building from a set of drawings specifying every detail.claim0.784
Because feedback is needed to shape elements during construction.
To make a building that lives, it must be allowed to unfold step by step in real time, both before and during construction; we cannot fake it.claim0.782
The necessity of real-time unfolding for authentic living architecture.