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claim:what-matters-above-all-is-that-the-people-themselves-are-in-control-of-their-environment

What matters, above all, is that the people themselves are in control of their environment.

The single most important prerequisite for achieving belonging

Neighborhood — ranked by edge-count

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Control over one's environment
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The ability of individuals and communities to shape, own, and modify their living spaces; a prerequisite for belonging

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Everything matters.claim0.851
New cosmological assumption #4: no action is exempt from contributing to life or death.
It is always the whole which governs in a living process; even when only latent, the greater whole is the driving force controlling the shaping of parts.claim0.791
Central principle distinguishing structure-preserving from structure-destroying processes.
The environment affects us, and it is perhaps through our rooms that it does it most.claim0.787
Opening claim about the importance of room character.
IT IS THE LAND WHICH MATTERS. The purpose of the buildings is to bring life to the land.claim0.784
The building volumes are merely tools; the land and its space, as activated, are what really matter.
Design alone cannot accomplish this. It needs a change in the way we make it possible for people to control the world around them.claim0.779
Argues that spatial quality requires a shift in social process, not just architectural design
The single criterion of whether everything is made of beings correlates accurately with the presence of life in the environment.hypothesis0.774
Testable hypothesis that the being-character is a reliable indicator of experienced life.
Why should it matter so much, whether a person makes something beautiful or not?question0.773
To get it in meaningful fashion, again, as in the Indian village, people need to be in control — in control of their individual space, and in control of the public space.claim0.771
Reiterates that dual control (private and public) is the mechanism behind successful traditional environments