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Table 3: Progresso percentages at 16 units/acre: Pedestrians 17%, Gardens 30%, Buildings 28%, Cars 25%

Specific target percentages for the Progresso neighborhood at the upper limit of humane density.

Neighborhood — ranked by edge-count

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Under a living process, as unfolding proceeds, the relative areas of these four components need to remain almost equal.
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Invariant that living process maintains percentage balance.

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Chapter 9: The Way That Living Processes Can Guide The Reconstruction Of An Urban Neighborhood
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The working unit that describes the four-fold pattern process for transforming blighted neighborhoods into living structures.

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Table 4: At 20 units/acre: Pedestrians drop to 7%, Gardens 33%, Buildings 32%, Cars 28%finding0.894
Demonstrates how a 12% density increase (from 16 to 20 units/acre) causes dramatic pedestrian space loss.
A density of 16 dwellings (or units) per acre is roughly the upper limit of what can be achieved while keeping the environment humane.claim0.751
The central density threshold claim derived from the interaction of the four colors.
At 40-80 families per acre, the same geometry gives larger gardens, and there is no need for underground parking.claim0.748
Claim that the many-parallel-lanes configuration adapts well to slightly lower densities.
Density threshold (16 units/acre)concept0.730
The upper limit of density for a humane neighborhood, above which pedestrian space is sacrificed destructively.
Floor-area ratio (FAR) of 0.54 at 16 units/acrefinding0.712
Calculated overall floor-area ratio for the humane density threshold.
Repeated use of the fundamental process will typically generate irregular streets following contours, polygonal lots, long-narrow houses adjusted to lot lines, positively-shaped gardens, and overall lot designs composed of separate adjacent portionsclaim0.709
Alexander's enumeration of the predictable morphological outcomes of the dynamic process across scales.
The 10-step Guasare process generates a dense field of living centers in which every bit of space — street, lot, garden, courtyard, house — forms a coherent center, a result achievable only by this dynamic sequential processfinding0.709
Demonstration via simulation that the defined process produces complex, organic, center-rich morphology.
The Guasare simulation showed that the defined process generates coherent, complex, and variable morphology for houses, streets, lots and gardens even without influence from external factors such as land and topographyfinding0.707
Key validation that the process itself — not just site conditions — generates living structure.