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concept:soul-of-the-people-and-placeSoul of the people and place
The essential emotional and cultural identity of a community that a pattern language captures
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- The deep inner aspect of people that morphogenesis touches, used by Alexander as an empirical concept.
- The personal experience of being a self, which is left out of the mechanistic world-picture but is central to the new wholeness-based view.
- Emphasizes the experiential, transformative dimension of life in built environments.
- Objects that show human use and adaptation, such as the zone behind the bed, making a space more alive.
- Load-bearing ontological statement condensing Alexander's thesis about the personal nature of life
- Load-bearing assertion of objectivity, summarizing the chapter's thesis.
- Love as the driving force of living creation.