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CIVILA
| 19.4 |
Quality of city life
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| A city is alive to the extent that it may be described by the way its buildings and spaces are in harmony with the activities of its citizens. The more harmonious the patterns of events around buildings and places, the more harmonious the city. | ||
| A living city is when entire systems of patterns, interdependent at many levels, is all stable ( balance) and alive. | ||
| Every place is given its character by certain patterns of events that keep on happening there. | ||
| These patterns of events are always interlocked with certain geometric patterns in the space. Each building and each town is ultimately made out of these patterns in the space- they are the atoms and molecules from which a building or a town is made. | ||
| The specific patterns out of which a building or a town is made may be alive or dead. To the extent they are alive, they let our inner forces loose and set us free; but when they are dead, they keep us locked in inner conflict. | ||
| The more living patterns there are in a place- a room, a building, or a town- the more it comes to life as an entirety- the more it glows. When a building has this glow, it becomes part of nature. | ||
| Places are comfortable because they have no inner contradictions, because there is no little restlessness disturbing them. | ||
| Places which have the quality of life, invite this quality to come to life in us. And when we have this quality in us, we tend to make it come to life in towns and buildings which we help to build. It is a self supporting, self maintaining, self generating quality. It is the quality of life. And we must seek it, for our own sakes in our surroundings, simply in order that we live. | ||
| A building gets its character from life patterns | ||
| Those builders that recognize patterns of life create towns in the first place by liberating the human being. They create life, by allowing people to release their energis, by allowing people themselves to become alive. | ||
| Or in other places, they prevent it, they destroy the sense of life, the destroy the very possibility of life by creating conditions under which people cannot possibly be free. | ||
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