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concept:created-natureCreated Nature
A new ecology where human-made and natural elements interpenetrate and are managed together as one balanced system.
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- Managed Ecologyassociated_withA new approach to ecology where the whole landscape, wild and built, is managed as one sustainable, life-enhancing system.
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- Concluding chapter of Volume 3, summarizing the vision of a living world created through unfolding wholeness.
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- The presence of arbitrary idea and image in design that distorts the unfolding process.
- The quality a structure has when it is deeply connected to the I; what Alexander strives to produce in each element of a building.
- Alexander's proposal that nature is living structure with objective degrees of value, not a mechanistic, value-neutral system.
- The strongest version of relatedness, where one feels actual identity with a natural entity, not mere identification.
- The innate potential for awakening; alluded to in the koan of the sutra.
- Alfred North Whitehead's term for the split between objective and subjective; Alexander claims living structure bridges this gap.
- The perfectionist welfare good of developing and exercising the essential capacities of one's nature.