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How is this nearly random structure of the present to be transformed, gradually, to form a humane, coherent structure on the Earth?

Central guiding question of the chapter.

Neighborhood — ranked by edge-count

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Four-fold pattern of yellow, green, gray, and red
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A conceptual scheme for analyzing and redesigning neighborhoods by balancing pedestrian space (yellow), gardens (green), buildings (gray), and car space (red).

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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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The physical structure of the world is generated by its processes.claim0.789
States that the form of buildings and cities is an outcome of the processes that create them, even when unintended.
The structure we know as living structure is just that kind of structure which has unfolded smoothly and naturally, arising step by step from what exists, preserving the structure of what exists.claim0.789
Defines living structure as the product of a truthful unfolding process that respects and preserves existing wholeness.
The combination of these transformations, taken together, slowly creates public space that is coherent.claim0.787
Summary of the combined effect of the four element processes.
The profound wholeness of living structure, almost every time it has been done most profoundly, has been done in a mystical‑religious context.claim0.786
A sweeping historical observation that grounds the claim that mystical context is a near‑universal condition for the highest living structure.
Nature manages to create structures that are members of C_living by way of structure-preserving transformations.claim0.781
A structure is truly generated, and perceived as having life, only when it has unfolded from a nice, beautiful sequence of differentiations.claim0.780
The most profound claim of the chapter: the niceness of the sequence is directly perceptible in the built form and is the ultimate source of living quality.
There is nothing except the living structure of the world, and this living structure is all we need to reason with.claim0.779
Radical assertion that function reduces to living structure, eliminating the need for external goals.
Structure-preserving transformations that continually modify wholeness slowly cause space to be filled with unfolded I-like centers.claim0.779
Proposition 3 of the Mid-Book Appendix; the claim linking the mathematical process of unfolding to the emergence of I-likeness in natural and built structures.