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Feeling

The experiential measure of life; a living process is congruent with and governed by feeling, and the feeling a place presents is the measure of its life.

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  • The experiential correlate of deep wholeness; the personal, emotional recognition of life in a structure.
  • Alexander distinguishes 'feeling' — the sense of being part of the ocean, sky, world — from emotions like happiness, sadness, or anger
  • Grasping wholeness not analytically but through a visceral feeling that arises when paying attention to the whole.
  • Feelings
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    Salient vectors in the space of emotions and intuitions; percepts of emotion, physiological valence, and extra-intellectual evaluation of reality

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  • This chapter argues that every step in a living process must enhance the whole, using examples from drawing, zoning, St. Mark's Square, canyon design, and painting.

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