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CIVILA
| 19.7 |
Work life and home life in cities
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| In some towns, workshops mix with houses, children run around where work is going on, the members of the family help in the work, the family may possibly eat lunch together or the people working there. | ||
| Family, work and play are one continuous stream, helping nourish everyone. | ||
| But a pattern which prevents us from resolving our conflict forces, leaves us almost perpetually in a state of tension | ||
| For if we live in a world where work is separated from family life, or where courtyards turn us away, or where windows are merely holes in the wall, we experience the stress of these inner and conflicting forces constantly. We can never come to rest. | ||
| We are living then in a world so made, so patterned, that we cannot by any stratagem defeat the tension, solve the problem or resolve the conflict. In this kind of world, the conflicts do not go away. They stay within us, nagging, tense.. The build-up of stress, however minor, stays within us. We live in state of heightened alertness, higher stress, more adrenalin, all the time. | ||
| While, on the other hand, the corresponding “good” patterns, when they are correctly made, help us to be alive, because they allow us to resolve our conflicts for ourselves. As we encounter them, we are always fresh, in the face of new encounters, new problems, and we are continuously renewed and made alive. | ||
| Each pattern that creates conditions in which people can resolve the conflicts they experience, for themselves, reduces people’s inner conflicts, helps to put them in a state where they can meet more challenges and helps them to be more alive. | ||
| Town planning and work life and home life | ||
| We tend to think of strategic urban development as something as a whole- a gigantic task, rather than a system of simple rules, not complicated patently applied, until they gradually form a thing. The thing may be formed gradually and built all at one, or built over time. | ||
| An organism cannot be made. It cannot be conceived by a willful act of creation and then built according to the blueprint of the creator. | ||
| It is far too complex far too subtle to be born from a bolt of lightning in the creator’s mind. It has a thousand billion cells, each one adopted perfectly to its conditions- and this can only happen because the organism is not “made” but generated by a process which allows the gradual adoption of these cells to happen hour by hour- it is the process of life that creates the organism. | ||
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