Cost Plan

A financial tool used from the earliest design stage, specifying percentage allocations to different work categories to shape the building's feeling.

Neighborhood — ranked by edge-count

concept

Living process
uses
A generative process that repeatedly applies the fundamental process to create uniqueness and belonging in the environment

chapter

Chapter 4: How Differently A Living Process Generates Large Public Buildings
mentions
The working unit chapter that presents Alexander's method for generating large public buildings through living process, illustrated by six major projects.

cosine ≥ 0.65 · no typed edge

Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

Expected Costconcept0.740
The KL divergence between predicted and preferred outcomes, minimized by policies that realize prior preferences.
Price Equationframework0.733
Program Budgetingmethod0.723
A cost-plan method where budget allocations are set intuitively from the start and subsequently tested and modified, keeping price fixed and letting design float.
marginconcept0.716
The outer edge space that protects the text block but can be invaded by marginalia.
Conceptconcept0.712
Central entity of Jackson's framework: a structure invented to give coherent account of immediate consequences of actions; the building block of software design
biddingconcept0.709
The act of placing monetary bids in the auction phase.
scaleconcept0.706
A formal context with a suggestive interpretation used in conceptual scaling.
Scheduleconcept0.705