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"there is a growing awareness that the most interesting and vital loose parts are those that we have around us every day in the wilderness, the countryside, the city and the ghetto"

Nicholson's observation of an emerging recognition that natural and everyday environments provide superior loose parts to designed ones.

Neighborhood — ranked by edge-count

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The most interesting and vital loose parts are those that we have around us every day in the wilderness, the countryside, the city and the ghetto.claim0.935
Nicholson's assertion that everyday natural/urban elements are the best loose parts.
Natural and Urban Loose Parts Are Most Vitalclaim0.806
Every part of the world that has life, and every part of every part, becomes unique.claim0.781
Core assertion that living structure is characterized by total uniqueness of parts.
"It is this substance which permits — OR DOES NOT PERMIT — the emergence of living centers in the material, and the adaptation of fine structure that is needed to bring the larger whole to life."quote0.766
Alexander's foundational assertion connecting material substance directly to living structure.
In order to make buildings by unfolding - hence by structure-preserving transformations - it is necessary, truly, to pay attention to the wholeness in the world. This 'paying attention to the wholeness' is essentially synonymous with love of life.quote0.764
Connection between process, attention, and love.
The part is influenced by its position in the whole and is made to increase the life of the emerging whole in its large aspects.claim0.762
Summary of the two-way influence between part and whole in living process.
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.claim0.758
Universality claim: uniqueness at every scale is a hallmark of all living systems
Value, emerging as a deeper life in the wholeness of the world, turns out to be a fundamental aspect of nature itself.quote0.756
The radical conclusion that objective value is inherent in nature, not merely a human projection.