Coleman 1985: negative environmental indicators (urine in passages, graffiti) showed high statistical reliability correlating with features of housing project design

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• Coleman's use of mechanical indicators (urine in passages) to prove what was directly observable as feeling was a conjuring trick required by the illegitimacy of phenomenological evidence in 1985 scienceclaim0.781
  Alexander's critical interpretation of Coleman's methodological choices as forced by Cartesian epistemological constraints
• Schmitt (1966) found no negative correlation between neighborhood density and social indicators of mental health.finding0.737
  Disconfirmation of the simplistic assumption that high density always damages mental health.
• Compartmentalization and refusal to allow processes to unfold in the right order had negative impact on the shape, form, cost, and life of major buildings.claim0.737
  Summary of the Mary Rose Museum and Frankfurt housing cases, asserting that inappropriate sequences damage building quality.
• Buildings made with an eye to the past will most often fail to have living structure, because the process of historical reproduction somehow turns vivid, living structure sour.claim0.736
  Argues that copying historical forms does not produce living structure.
• The general morphological features for very high densities from a living process are: low height, abundant daylight, tiny gardens, narrow lanes, parking partly underground, and family-designed interiors.claim0.732
  Summary invariant of housing forms generated by the living process at high density.
• This process is harmful, and has a strong tendency to work against creation of living structure in building design.claim0.731
• No building has the wabi-sabi, rusty, imperfect quality at the time when it is built; but some buildings and landscapes invite it, encourage it, foster it.claim0.725
  A nuanced claim about the temporal dimension of belonging and living structure.
• Human beings can violate the tendency to preserve wholeness either by acting disrespectfully toward it or by failing to perceive it accurately, which explains why modern buildings often lack living structure.claim0.725
  Alexander's explanation for the 'temperamental' nature of the principle: it can be overridden by human agency