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The Identification of Good Places and their Physical Properties
01/02/198042-page paper on a test conducted in a class by the authors, with the task to identify a common understanding of what people consider to be “good” places, beautiful towns, buildings and rooms which have a “spirit of place”. The concepts of order and orderliness (complexity and simplicity) were applied. Results of the tests are presented in the 66-page appendix.
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