6 An invariant morphology which will be generated by living process

First, each particle of the city needs to be individual, particular. We need to have houses, apartments, shops, offices, houses, rooms, windows, doors, which truly reflect our multitude of human character, where we enjoy and support our idiosyncrasies.
Second, for the general good, we need a city of public places where we can see these differences, where we can become engaged with the multitude of human characters, where we are engaged with our fellow creatures and can enjoy, in all its beauty, the great variety of human beings.
These are two facts of nature. The individuality of every part and every place, is not only necessary as a kindness to all human beings. It is a structural characteristic of all living tissue, in leaves and rocks and water, as in human streets and dwellings, if they have their life.
And the focused gathering of human groups in public spaces, the expression of the larger which supports the smaller, is a necessary larger level of structure in all nature — as vital to the dwelling in our habitat as the mother to the baby, or as the river to the stream, or as the ocean to the iceberg.

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