Berkeley Rose-Shattuck apartment building controversy, 1989–1992

Case study where over 100 residents expressed phenomenological objections in mechanistic terms due to lack of scientific legitimacy for felt observations

Neighborhood — ranked by edge-count

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The Berkeley Rose-Shattuck protesters' mechanistic arguments (parking, pollution) were a disguised expression of the objectively shareable feeling that the building was not harmonious with the neighborhood
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Case study illustrating how Cartesian epistemological constraints force people to translate phenomenological observations into mechanistic language to gain legitimacy