Grythengen sin tragedie
Ja, hvorfor i all verden kunne ikke denne eldgamle kværnenga få lov til å ligge i fred ved elva si, stenelven Grýta?
- Svar på henvendelse om kulturarv i Øverskreien på Toten
To create a city or a building is essentially to transform that place into a more coherent entity.The transformed city or building should directly contribute to that place to become living or moreliving. The transformation also called wholeness-enhanced unfolding proceeds in a step-by-stepfashion. Once that place is well shaped as a living structure, it tends to shape the behavior ofhuman beings. To paraphrase Winston Churchill (1874-1965), we first shape our space to be aliving structure, and afterwards our activities are shaped by it. It should be noted that thisprocess of “shape and shaped-by” goes in a never-ending recursive manner or in a timeless way(Alexander 1979). Unfortunately, the science of the past 300 years, framed under the Cartesianmechanistic worldview, is essentially unable to create living cities, as argued by Alexander(2002-2005). It is the time for us to embrace the Whiteheadian organismic worldview in order totransform modern cities to be living or more living towards a sustainable society. - Professor Bin Jiang
- Christopher Alexander's Pursuit of Living Structure in Cities