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63 - Dancing in the Streets * Why is it that people don't dance in the streets today?

230 - Radiant Heat * This pattern is a biologically precise formulation of the intuition that sunlight and a hot blazing fire are the best kinds of heat.

158 - Open Stairs * Internal staircases reduce the connection between upper stories and the life of the street to such an extent that they can do enormous social damage.

26 - Life Cycle * All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players: They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages.

228 - Stair Vault * Within a building technology which uses compressive materials as much as possible, and excludes the use of wood, it is natural to build stairs over a vaulted void, simply to save weight and materials.

184 - Cooking Layout * Cooking is uncomfortable if the kitchen counter is too short and also if it is too long.

52 - Network of Paths and Cars ** Cars are dangerous to pedestrians; yet activities occur just where cars and pedestrians meet.

93 - Food Stands * Many of our habits and institutions are bolstered by the fact that we can get simple, inexpensive food on the street, on the way to shopping, work, and friends.

158 - Open Stairs * Internal staircases reduce the connection between upper stories and the life of the street to such an extent that they can do enormous social damage.

4 - Agricultural Valleys * The land which is best for agriculture happens to be best for building too. But it is limited and once destroyed, it cannot be regained for centuries.

36 - Degrees of Publicness ** People are different, and the way they want to place their houses in a neighborhood is one of the most basic kinds of difference.

240 - Half-Inch Trim ** Totalitarian, machine buildings do not require trim because they are precise enough to do without. But they buy their precision at a dreadful price: by killing the possibility of freedom in the building plan.

251 - Different Chairs People are different sizes; they sit in different ways. And yet there is a tendency in modern times to make all chairs alike.

145 - Bulk Storage In houses and workplaces there is always some need for bulk storage space; a place for things like suitcases, old furniture, old files, boxes - all those things which you are not ready to throw away, and yet not using everyday.

226 - Column Place * Thin columns, spindly columns, columns which take their shape from structural arguments alone, will never make a comfortable environment.

203 - Child Caves Children love to be in tiny, cave-like places.

85 - Shopfront Schools Around the age of 6 or 7, children develop a great need to learn by doing, to make their mark on a community outside the home. If the setting is right, these needs lead children directly to basic skills and habits of learning.

64 - Pools and Streams * We came from the water; our bodies are largely water; and water plays a fundamental role in our psychology. We need constant access to water, all around us; and we cannot have it without reverence for water in all its forms. But everywhere in cities water is out of reach.

86 - Children The task of looking - after little children is a much deeper and more fundamental social issue than the phrases "babysitting" and "child care" suggest.

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