“The Oregon Experiment” by Christopher Alexander

The Principle of Participation: The fundamental human needs: to create, to control, to identify with the environment in which they live and haveĀ  a sense of ownership. The Principle of Diagnosis: The well being of the whole is protected by an annual diagnosis which explains, in detail, which spaces are alive and which ones dead, at any given moment in the history of the community. The Principle of Piecemeal Growth: […]

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