Resale Value as Argument for Standardization

The institutional objection (from banks and mortgage companies) that unique houses are harder to resell, used as a reason to demand identical designs — which Alexander challenged.

Neighborhood — ranked by edge-count

Claims (1)

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Each house must be different to give each family its dignity; identical mass-produced houses violate the individual life and dreams that underpin the living process
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The socially normative claim Alexander and the families made against Hernan Alesia's standardization demand.

Related by similarity (8)

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

valueconcept0.709
Probability of sensory input expected by an agent, aligning value maximization with surprise minimization.
Value Ruleconcept0.694
Spreadsheet-like rule defining how a rectangle's or object's value is computed; enables data-driven behavior across all Playground tools.
acting to optimize value and perception are two aspects of exactly the same principle; namely the minimisation of a quantity [free energy] that bounds the probability of sensory input, given a particular agent or phenotype.quote0.688
Concise statement of the free-energy principle's unification of action and perception.
value is simply the probability of sensory input expected by an agent.quote0.684
Redefinition of value in probabilistic terms.
Value of Informationconcept0.680
Economic concept related to epistemic value in expected free energy; information needed to realize rewards
Intrinsic Value (Epistemic value)concept0.678
Value derived from information gain; comprises salience and novelty.
Laws for free from semantic homomorphism.claim0.675
Developing a simple, precise denotational model of graphical user interfaces enables proving properties of programs and establishing objective comparisons of library abstraction levels.claim0.675
Authors' core assertion that formal modeling of GUIs provides foundational benefits for language design and program verification.