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| It does not mean that space create events, or that it causes them, it simply means that a pattern of events cannot be separated from the space where it occurs. | It does not mean that space create events, or that it causes them, it simply means that a pattern of events cannot be separated from the space where it occurs. |
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| Isn't it true that the features which you remember in a place are not so much pecularities, but rather the typical, the recurrent, the characteristic features; the canals of venice, the flat roofs of a Maroccan town, the event spacing of the fruit trees in an orchard, the slope of a beach towards the sea, the umbrellas of an Italian beach, the wide sidewalks, sidewalkscafes, cylindrical poster boardings and pissoirs of Paris. The qualities which make Paris a special place, which make Broadway and | Isn't it true that the features which you remember in a place are not so much pecularities, but rather the typical, the recurrent, the characteristic features; the canals of venice, the flat roofs of a Maroccan town, the event spacing of the fruit trees in an orchard, the slope of a beach towards the sea, the umbrellas of an Italian beach, the wide sidewalks, sidewalkscafes, cylindrical poster boardings and pissoirs of Paris. The qualities which make Paris a special place, which make Broadway and |
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| exicting, the qualities which make Venice special, the qualities which make an eighteencentury London Square to peaceful and refreshing- the qualities in any environment which give it the character you like it for- are its patterns. | exicting, the qualities which make Venice special, the qualities which make an eighteenth century London Square to peaceful and refreshing- the qualities in any environment which give it the character you like it for- are its patterns. |
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| A barn gets its structure from its patterns. | A barn gets its structure from its patterns. |
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| Is has a cetrain overall shape, roughlly a long rectangle; there is a central position where the hay is stored, with aisles along the sides wher the cows stand; there is a row of columns between the centre and the aisle; along these colums are the feeding through where the cows feed; there are great doors or double doors at one end; perhaps smaller doors at the other end, in the aisle, for cattle to pass in and out" | Is has a certain overall shape, roughly a long rectangle; there is a central position where the hay is stored, with aisles along the sides wher the cows stand; there is a row of columns between the centre and the aisle; along these colums are the feeding through where the cows feed; there are great doors or double doors at one end; perhaps smaller doors at the other end, in the aisle, for cattle to pass in and out" |
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| The number of patterns out of which a building or a town is made is rather small. A buiding is defined, in its essentials , by a few dozen patterns. An a vast town like London by a few hundred patterns at the most. | The number of patterns out of which a building or a town is made is rather small. A buiding is defined, in its essentials , by a few dozen patterns. An a vast town like London by a few hundred patterns at the most. |
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