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UN Low-Cost Housing Competition Lima 1969

The UN-organized competition in which Alexander's team lived with Peruvian families for a month to develop a culture-specific pattern language

Neighborhood — ranked by edge-count

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  • Empathic Immersion for Pattern Discovery
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    The procedure of living with families in a target culture, using one's own feelings as measuring instrument, and cross-checking across multiple observers to identify essential centers

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  • United Nations
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    Organized the international competition for low-cost housing in Peru (1969) in which Alexander's team participated

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