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Design-nøkler for lommenabolaget
Da jeg leste Roger Aarli-Grøndalens kommentar “Naboer er best på litt avstand“, ble jeg litt trist. Ingen tvil om at Grøndalen er en høysensitiv mann, noe han bør være stolt av. Dessverre tror jeg de...
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KEY FEATURES OF NEIGHBORHOODS THAT ARE VIBRANT AND ALIVE
By Christopher Alexander. Original article here.Published at P2P-Foundation on 9th December 2014. COREThere are so many different kinds of neighborhoods. A neighborhood may be small or large. It may be...
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Building Shape
By Christopher Alexander. Original text here. Published at P2P-Foundation on 2nd April 2015.Almost every building mass visible in this picture, from the town of Trondheim, is a rectangle in plan.THE...
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WHOLENESS: THE FOUNDATION OF A LIVING NEIGHBORHOOD
By Christopher Alexander. Original text here.Published at P2P-Foundation on 13th December 2014.EVERY ACT IS TAKEN IN THE CONTEXT OF SOME WHOLENESS The wholeness exists to begin with as a structure in...
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GENERATIVE CODES HAVE EVOLVED FROM PATTERN LANGUAGES, BUT ARE MUCH MORE...
By Christopher Alexander. Original post here. Published at P2P-Foundation on 6th April 2015.A generative code is a system of unfolding steps that enable people in a community to create a wholesome and...
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Community Discussion as the Foundation for a New Neighborhood
By Christopher Alexander. Original text here.Published at P2P-Foundation on 7th December 2014.GO OUT AND THINK ABOUT THINGS BY YOURSELFTo start with, it’s a good idea to go to the place where you think...
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You Must Always Looks for Those Sparks of Life
By Christopher Alexander. Original text here. Published at P2P-Foundation on 28th March 2015.Whenever you start a project, or whenever you begin to take action, you must always looks for those sparks...
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CREATING HUMAN COMMUNITY
By Christopher Alexander. Original text here. Published at P2P-Foundation on 4th April 2015.IF ONE THING, MORE THAN ANY OTHER, distinguishes a real neighborhood from the corporate machine-architecture...
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The Fight of the Century
Article by Richard Heinberg, Senior Fellow-in-Residence of the Post Carbon Institute. Original article to be found at Post Carbon Institute here, and at Energy Bulletin here. First posted on February...
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The Most Important Entities
By Christopher Alexander. Original post here. Published at P2P-Foundation on 10th April 2015.Use the following list of “entities” as a model for making your own first rudimentary list for the...
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WHAT IS AN UNFOLDING?
By Christopher Alexander. Original post here.Published at P2P-Foundation on 12th April 2015.The elements of a generative code are “unfoldings”. Whether in the evolution of a neighborhood or in the...
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Modernism & Disconnection from Life
Norway is said to be a social democratic country, which means a 50 – 50 percent mixture of socialism and capitalism. The catch is that in the end there is no difference between these two ideologies. It...
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Let’s Make Our World Whole!
Christopher AlexanderI’m not a scholarly man and I have no vision to come up with any new theories, what I hope is to get a glimpse of the understanding of the world held by many greater thinkers. But...
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Salingaros on Kahn
There are four great American architects carrying the name Kahn, one of them a master of Art Deco, the other of traditional architecture, another on classical architecture and our Kahn on contemporary...
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Åtte praksiser som undergraver skapelsen av levende nabolag
Publisert hos Kulturverk.com lørdag 15. mars, 2014.Naturen planlegger intet, den folder seg ut, den utfolder seg. Det er derfor jeg tar avstand fra kreasjonistene, fordi de reduserer skaperverket til...
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David Bollier og gjenreisingen av allmenningene
Utestengelsen og marginaliseringen av allmenningene har foregått over århundrer. Men det er først i nyere tid, med framveksten av globale korporative strukturer og sammensmeltingen av disse med...
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Tenk langsiktig og lokalt! – intervju med Nikos Salingaros
Publisert hos Kulturverk 17. april 2013.Etter at Nikos A. Salingaros ble venn med Christopher Alexander endret dette hans karriere, hvor han i dag er regnet som en av verdens fremste...
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From Industrial to Artisan: Modernism’s Sleight-of-Hand
By Nikos A. Salingaros. Original article here.I post this as a response to a former post about William Morris and 3D-printing, as I hope new technology combined with the scientific theory developed by...
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Landskapskonsumenter (Landscape Consumers)
"Særlig vestlige kulturer har de siste tiårene fjernet menneskene fra sin naturlige bakgrunn. Naturen er blitt kjøps- og utstillingsvare, den er noe man går ut i og betrakter, men ikke er en del av." -...
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Seksti år med kjøpesentret
Etter privatbilen kan eg knapt tenkje meg noko som har bidrege meir til amerikaniseringa av den norske kulturen enn kjøpesentret. Men desse to er òg uskiljelege. Om ein her skal dra ein parallell med...
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