70 — Christopher Alexander — 1/2 —Notes on the Synthesis of Form
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What's the First Failure State?
The design of a village in India has 141 misfit variables. These are all needs which have been explicitly felt by the villages and communicated at some level. The list is very strange I think it's worth just going through a few of the things on it. If if um if Harry Johns are richly impure equals one village doesn't work, that's a failure state. And then there're other ones like that need for elaborate weddings without elaborate weddings or cattle treated as sacred and vegetarian attitude.
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