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Pattern: Bounded common small-scale interaction domains

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Part of a 5-fold Pattern Language.
Subsequently published in Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential (1986)

Pattern template

Physical Small public squares in urban environments.

Broader Activity nodes; Local focal points; Context for disorder; Identifiable context; Points of wider perspective; Cycle of relationship reinforcement; Informal context for formal processes; Stable density gradient of local relationships; Intersection of differently paced communications.

Narrower Hospitable common domains; Enhancing function of common domains; Common external context for inactivity; Informal local perspective interface zones; Ensuring function of common domain interfaces; Hierachy of perspectives favouring the broadest; Overview of communication pathway from structure; Off-centering the focal point of a common domain; Integrating points of perspective into common domains; Transit point location for sources of perspective nourishment; Direct relationship between structures and communication pathways; Cyclic interrelation of complementary perspective in common domains; Functional enhancement of domains separating complementary structures.