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this is part of the [[Village Buildings]] book / article collection. Quotations presented in chronological order (roughly):
''"Look upon the covenant: for all the earth is full of darkness, and cruel habitations." '' ▼
Quotations presented in chronological order (roughly): ▼
▲''"Look upon the covenant: for all the earth is full of darkness, and cruel habitations." ''
''“The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name.”''
▲-Psalms 74:20, as presented in ''The Book of Common Prayer'', 1549 / 1559 / 1662). Quoted in Gauldie, Enid. (1974). ''Cruel Habitations: a history of working-class housing 1780-1918.''
—'''Confucius''' (551–479 BC)
More literal translation: “If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things."
''"We all live in a state of ambitious poverty." ("Hic vivimus ambitiosa paupertate omnes").''▼
Proverb form: Simplified Chinese: 名正才能言順. Pinyin: Míng zhèng cáinéng yán shùn. Google Translate: "Only with a right name."
Chengyu (four-character idiom): 名正言順. Míng zhèng yán shùn. ("call things by their own names." i.e. legitimate, valid, true.
''"Pray to God, but row towards shore." ''▼
''"First, the taking in of scattered particulars under one Idea, so that everyone understands what is being talked about ... Second, the separation of the Idea into parts, by dividing it at the joints, as nature directs, not breaking any limb in half as a bad carver might."''
- Russian proverb.▼
—'''Plato''' (ca 428-348 BC), ''Phaedrus,'' 265D. (also frontispiece quote in Christopher Alexander, ''Notes on the Synthesis of Form,'' 1964).
▲''"We all live in a state of ambitious poverty." ("Hic vivimus ambitiosa paupertate omnes").''
—'''Juvenal''', Satires. (early 2nd century AD).
▲''"Pray to God, but row towards shore." ''
''Alis volat propriis'' ("One flies by one's own wings").
—'''motto of U.S. state of Oregon.''' Its refers to the 1843 vote by Oregon Country settlers at the third Champoeg Meeting to form a provisional government independent of the United States and Great Britain.
''"Housing in the twentieth century has been one continuing emergency." ''
''Their watching faces,''
''as I walk the autumn road''
''make me a traveler.''
—Richard Wright, ca.1959.
''"What the poor need is not charity but capital, not caseworkers but co-workers. And what the rich need is a wise, honorable way of divesting themselves from their overabundance."''
''"Distrust all claims for 'one true way.'"''
Unix "Rule of Diversity", in e.g. '''E.S. Raymond''', The Art of Unix Programming, 2003.
— from '''Kim Hopper''' & Jim Baumohl. "Redefining the Cursed Word: A Historical Interpretation of American Homelessness." in [Baumohl 1996].
''"Let us capture a piece of fallow ground if necessary and hold it for ourselves... for doesn't the Bible say that the earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof?" ''
''"Very soon now we shall pitch the tents of Joshua on various sites around the city. We are blessed here in Oregon with ample public land and so there is space if not a place for us to go. We must build that place for ourselves. Know that the kernel of the future lies buried in the present. It is important for the future how we set up and govern our camps now." ''
''"One of the several strange and unanticipated results of this [cultural studies] movement has been the transformation of Gramsci's remark on 'pessimism of the intellect and optimism of the will' into a virtual law of human nature...A powerful inhibitor to action was [/is] the inability to come up with an alternative to the Thatcherite doctrine that 'there is no alternative'... The inability to find an
▲—David Harvey, in ''[[Spaces of Hope]],'' 2000.
''"In the broadest sense, the goal of urban planning is to facilitate communication." ''
''"Portland continues to stand out as the progressive example of a municipality embracing alternative types of housing for homeless persons."''
''"This activity...to retrofit the monoculture and mono-use parcels of many of these older neighborhoods could be the DNA to in fact rethink land use and ultimately housing models....The future of the city at this moment of crisis depends less on buildings, and more on the reconfiguration of social and economic relations. I think there is a huge potential that Outside In, the agencies that are so progressive, in cities equally progressive as Portland, can begin to lead the way in reimagining what we mean by housing." '' ▼
—'''Lynne Dearborn & Abbilyn Harmon'''. "Tent Cities." In ''The Encyclopedia of Housing,'' 2nd Edition, 2012.
- Teddy Cruz, 2012 Visiting Professor at PSU CPID, on OPB Think Out Loud [Blanchard 2012].▼
''Villages / tent cities are "simultaneously the most and the least radical response to a disturbing crisis."''
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▲''"This activity...to retrofit the monoculture and mono-use parcels of many of these older neighborhoods could be the DNA to in fact rethink land use and ultimately housing models....The future of the city at this moment of crisis depends less on buildings, and more on the reconfiguration of social and economic relations. I think there is a huge potential that Outside In, the agencies that are so progressive, in cities equally progressive as Portland, can begin to lead the way in reimagining what we mean by housing." ''
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''"Ironically, tent cities, though they must be eliminated if a just city is to arise, provide the model: as a taking of land, as a non-commodified and cooperative form of property and social relations, as (potentially) an organization space, tent cities, and their progenitors like the hobo jungle, have much to teach us [about what it will take to create a city that does not express the limits of capital but overcomes them]."''
''“We must make bottom-up solutions viable. The homeless must become an answer to their own prayers; as long as top-down solutions are preferred, the homeless will never get what they want; they’ll never get people to understand.”''
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''"As an outreach worker for Portland nonprofit JOIN, Lio Alaalatoa spends his evenings patrolling the streets, stopping any time he sees a chance to make contact with someone the rest of society has forgotten. Alaalatoa is from Samoa, and has worked for Portland's JOIN for 18 years.''
"''All economies are mining boom towns on one time scale or another. All cities are tent-cities.''"▼
''<nowiki/>'When I’m out here, it doesn’t really feel like work,' he says from the driver’s seat, one hand on the steering wheel and the other poised to wave to familiar faces. 'It’s like I’m back home. Back home, you’d go out at night and just talk to anybody who was hanging out in the village.'''
—Lyman Stone, [https://twitter.com/lymanstoneky/status/710405815644102656?s=20 March 17, 2016]. quoted by Sonja Trauss (founder, SF YIMBY)▼
''“'When I go home now and tell people about what I do for a living, they don’t understand,' he said. 'They don’t understand the basic concept of homelessness. They ask me, ‘What about their families?’''
''"His approach is simple: 'I just go out and talk to my friends.'”''
— from Griffin, Anna. "'''Lio Alaalatoa''' spends nights on the streets, handing out food, water, blankets — and hope." with photography by Thomas Boyd. ''The Oregonian'', January 31, 2015. <nowiki>https://www.oregonlive.com/projects/portland-homeless/join.html</nowiki>.
▲"''All economies are mining boom towns on one time scale or another. All cities are tent-cities.''"
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''"Oregon is emerging as a testing ground for a new approach to solving the nationwide shortage of affordable housing." ''
"I'm just one of those people that's always on the move, not always willingly. That's just how my life has gone."
—'''Naida Lavon''', quoted in "For Portland, Ore., Woman, Home These Days Is Where She Parks Her Minivan," by Nellie Gilles, ''All Things Considered'', June 23, 2020.
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"There’s no such thing as agency when you become unhoused: There’s a belief system that these programs have that beggars can’t be choosers."
-'''Theo Henderson'''. <nowiki>https://www.curbed.com/2020/10/theo-henderson-has-influence-but-no-house.html</nowiki>.
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Colin Ward on J.F.C. Turner / Turner's Laws.
J.F.C. Turner
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