My intention in book 3

Question to be answered

• What happens if living processes are used pervasively, in widespread fashion, in our own era? What kind of overall environment may we expect to see from their effects?
• Examples of large buildings, small buildings, neighborhoods, gardens, public space, wilderness, houses, construction details, color, ornament.
• What is likely to happen in the large: to show the likely impact on the whole.

The vision portrayed

• is the start of a vision of the kind of world we are likely to get from living processes if we use them today and tomorrow.
• This world is indeed living, because it is generated by repeated application of living processes. Such a world:
  • is nourishing to human life and to human feeling
  • encompasses what we need, our joys, our sorrows
  • can be a model of the kind of world in which we
    • might wish to live and
    • can live well
• A picture independent of our era
  • valid and relevant in any future period of history
    • equally appropriate to the 24th or 30th century
• The world will (must) look something like what is shown in book 3
  • if it is truly generated by adaptation, no matter
    • what the world is like
    • what its style is
    • its immediate technical character
  • if it truly is a living structure

A broad general character

• structural invariants independent of
  • technology
  • materials
  • social habits
  • culture
• must be present in all worlds made appropriate to the inner life of human beings
• not an idiosyncratic personal vision
• not a style or particular way of design

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