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concept:direct-life-life-in-povertyDirect life (life in poverty)
Life that shines out in poverty and slums because middle-class conceptions and media images have not killed it; the direct voice of the heart.
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- Comfortable ordinarinessassociated_withThe quality of being rough, not manicured, concept-free, and genuine, which produces life in everyday situations and modern artifacts.
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- Chapter 1: The Phenomenon of LifeintroducesOpening chapter of Vol 1, introducing a broad conception of life and arguing that all things possess life in some degree, using examples from nature, art, and everyday experience.
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- The experienced presence of aliveness, wholeness, and connectedness in built form, beyond biological life.
- The quality of having profound wholeness, which makes us feel our own existence most deeply.
- The quality that makes a space or structure feel alive, whole, and wonderful; measured by the degree of wholeness.
- Unsupervised physical learning process where elastic networks are held in desired configuration while strained bonds soften, reducing system energy
- The quality Alexander attributes to structures with deep wholeness and field of centers; connected to personal feeling