Part of a 5-fold Pattern Language.
Subsequently published in Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential (1986)
Physical Massive urban environments render life mechanized and harsh and detract from enjoyment and health from enjoyment and health. But the size of cities is potent. Interlocking fingers of farmland and urban land are an appropriate compromise, even at the centre of the metropolis.
Social The proliferation of total patterns of organization and systems of procedures denies the existence and emergence of unorganized activity and severely diminishes the value of major institutions. But the degree of integration of such institutions is also valuable and potent. A compromise can be achieved by ensuring the interpenetration of formal and informal modes of organization as necessary complements.
Conceptual The proliferation of totally organized bodies of knowledge and conceptual methods ignores the existence and emergence of underdefined concepts and forms of integration with the consequence that conceptual development is severely inhibited. But the degree of integration of such established bodies of knowledge is also valuable and potent. A compromise can be achieved by ensuring the interpenetration of formal and informal modes of conceptual organization.
Psychic The proliferation of highly structured modes of awareness ignores the existence and emergence of underdefined modes of awareness and forms of integration, with the consequence that personal development is severely inhibited. But the degree of integration of such established modes of awareness is also valuable and potent. A compromise can be achieved by ensuring the interpenetration of structured and unstructured modes of awareness.
Broader Distribution of organization.
Narrower Encirclement; Access to intensity; Non-linear organization; Four-level structural limit; Network of inter-relationships; Variety of forms and processes; Local interrelationship domains; Web of general interrelationships; Regenerative resource cultivation areas.
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