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Client organization for the Julian Street Inn homeless shelter in San Jose.
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- The working unit chapter that presents Alexander's method for generating large public buildings through living process, illustrated by six major projects.
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- Housing at densities of 50–80 families per acre (approximately 200 households per hectare), the design challenge addressed.
- Deep geometric and experiential coherence produced by morphogenesis.
- Slogan attributed to Le Corbusier, cited as an artistic justification for machine-like building process.
- Non-profit with which Alexander worked, standing against their construction managers' push to standardize self-built houses.
- Reiterates that dual control (private and public) is the mechanism behind successful traditional environments
- Critical diagnosis of the status quo.
- Direct extension of the life-adaptation requirement to buildings.
- The prevailing 20th-century model of development characterized by uniformity and lack of personal connection