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quote:society-must-be-described-in-terms-of-its-intrinsic-spatiality-space-must-be-described-in-terms-of-its-intrinsic-socialitySociety must be described in terms of its intrinsic spatiality. Space must be described in terms of its intrinsic sociality.
Key statement from Hillier and Hanson that encapsulates the inseparability of social function and spatial structure.
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- Bill Hillierassociated_withCo-author of The Social Logic of Space, studied the beady-ring structure in a French village.
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- Alexander's conditional prediction: if the recursive calculus works, then life-as-attribute-of-space must be a real feature of the universe.
- Distinguishes wealth-driven uniqueness from the true uniqueness born of living process
- Defines the ultimate spatial outcome of living process: simultaneous access to private sanctuary and public communion
- Extraordinary structural claim: functional organization converges on resemblance to the human self
- The inevitability of hulls as the outcome of living process.
- Definitional claim equating life with spatial uniqueness.
- Reiteration of a key premise from Book 1 within the new metaphysical framework.
- Optimistic assertion that living process effortlessly brings forth the spatial conditions for belonging