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concept:love-of-lifelove of life
The deep attention to and care for the wholeness of a place and its inhabitants, seen as synonymous with paying attention to the wholeness.
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- paying attention to the wholenesssame_concept_asThe act of seeing and feeling the entire field of centers at a place, which Alexander equates with love of life.
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- The current paper, arguing that life in buildings arises from structure-preserving transformations, as exemplified in traditional societies.
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cosine ≥ 0.65 · no typed edgeEntities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.
- The quality that makes a building or place alive, beautiful, and supportive of human life; argued to arise from the wholeness of centers.
- The quality that makes a space or structure feel alive, whole, and wonderful; measured by the degree of wholeness.
- The measure of how much living structure a thing possesses, ranging from high (tea bowl) to low (computer casing).
- The standard derived from Book I for judging whether a structure or process is living; now claimed to be publicly sharable.
- 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.
- Love as the driving force of living creation.
- The felt quality of wholeness and aliveness in a building or a work, the aim of the fundamental process.