Generativity
The structure of patterns are not themselves solutions, but they generate solutions
Patterns that work this way are called generative
- Alexander: This quality in buildings and in towns cannot be made, but only generated, indirectly by the ordinary actions of the people, just as a flower cannot be made, but only generated from a seed, (1979, p. xi)
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This generativity is an elusive quality, so elusive he calls it ‘the quality without a name’