Individuality and uniqueness in the city

Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

• Each particle of the city needs to be individual, particular.claim0.835
  A moral and aesthetic imperative for city form rooted in the nature of living tissue
• Individualityconcept0.779
  Formal notion of what constitutes an individual agent; bridges Buddhist and information-theoretic perspectives.
• Uniqueness in the built environmentconcept0.772
  The quality of each place being entirely particular and adapted, a necessary result of a living process.
• Uniquenessconcept0.761
  The property that every place generated by a living process is inevitably unique due to its adaptation to specific conditions.
• The quality of uniqueness is a quality of particularity which stems only from necessity.claim0.759
  States that genuine uniqueness arises from adapting to real constraints, not from arbitrary variety.
• The individuality of every part and every place is a structural characteristic of all living tissue, in leaves and rocks and water, as in human streets and dwellings IF they have their life.claim0.749
  Universality claim: uniqueness at every scale is a hallmark of all living systems
• Design For Individualityframework0.738
• Cities today are not coherent beautiful structures; a city today is more like a rambling incoherent structure loosely placed on the surface of the Earth.claim0.731
  Fundamental diagnosis of contemporary urban form.