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Centers in the Event Domain: A Retake on the Wholeness of Urban Spaces
Urban Planning, 2023 This article demonstrates that geometric analysis by itself is not enough to evaluate Alexander’s wholeness in public spaces and that his theories of wholeness can—and should—be extended into the realm of events.
Ridvan Kahraman
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A Management Model for Professional Wholeness
Curationis, 1999 The purpose of this article is to describe a management model for professional wholeness. A theory generating research design was followed. Based on this model the consequences of management could be a state, which varies dynamically between minimal and ...
M de Villiers
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Wholeness as a Hierarchical Graph to Capture the Nature of Space
, 2015 According to Christopher Alexander's theory of centers, a whole comprises numerous, recursively defined centers for things or spaces surrounding us. Wholeness is a type of global structure or life-giving order emerging from the whole as a field of the ...
Jiang, Bin
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The Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa, 2014 In this article, the power of musical sound and its transformative effects on human beings are explored, as perceived since ancient times and discussed in recent literature.
Christina Auerbach, Alette Delport
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A Complex-Network Perspective on Alexander's Wholeness
, 2016 The wholeness, conceived and developed by Christopher Alexander, is what exists to some degree or other in space and matter, and can be described by precise mathematical language.
Jiang, Bin
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The Necessity of Holistic Values, Approaches, and Practices in Social Work [PDF]
, 2020 Despite growing evidence of the effectiveness of holistic perspectives in social work, there is not one all-encompassing definition or view of wholeness or holistic wellbeing in the field of social work.
Robinson, Abigail
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Whole Body, Whole Life, Whole Family: Patients’ Perspectives on X-Linked Hypophosphatemia
Journal of the Endocrine Society, 2022 Abstract The rare genetic disorder X-linked hypophosphatemia (XLH) is often exclusively considered to impact children, and, as such, adult patients with XLH may receive inadequate care because their symptoms are not associated with XLH.
Amber A Hamilton +5 more
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ReligionsIn the late Ming Dynasty, Jesuit missionary Giulio Aleni introduced Western classical psychology to China, with the theory of the sensitive soul being his core focus.
Qi Zhao
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A Topological Representation for Taking Cities as a Coherent Whole
, 2017 A city is a whole, as are all cities in a country. Within a whole, individual cities possess different degrees of wholeness, defined by Christopher Alexander as a life-giving order or simply a living structure.
Jiang, Bin
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Journal of Architecture and Urbanism, 2023 Architect, builder, and professor Christopher Alexander focused his life’s work on trying to understand what makes the physical environment beautiful, and how beautiful environments can be created today.
Susan Ingham, Or Ettlinger
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