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Potteries Thinkbelt study: Further ongoing research

2026-05-11T15:58:08Z

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[[File:Item_25538.png|link=File:Item_25538.png]] • Map of the PTb showing main routes, transfer, faculty and [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Housing housing] [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Area areas]—Reproduced from GitHub

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* On 1 August 2024 GitHub featured a mockup of an interactive map of Cedric Price's Potteries Thinkbelt.

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The Potteries Thinkbelt study by Cedric Price was originally drafted in February 1966 in an unpublished report, namely:—

* "Potteries Think Belt: A [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Plan plan] for the establishment of a major advanced educational industry in North Staffordshire"
* (DR2004:0089, '[https://www.cca.qc.ca/en/archives/380477/cedric-price-fonds/396839/projects/402011/potteries-thinkbelt Potteries Think Belt]', [https://www.cca.qc.ca/en/archives/380477/cedric-price-fonds Cedric Price fonds], [https://www.cca.qc.ca/en/ Canadian Centre for Architecture])
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* "The only purchaser of the full Potteries Thinkbelt documentation was the Ministry of Housing and Local Government who bought the report and copies of every single drawing including the photo-montages."
* (Royston Landau, 1984)
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* "The major portion of the Cedric Price Archive is held at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montréal, to which it was transferred in a number of consignments between 1995 and 2004."
* ([https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/search/archives/8a4edd68-4f7b-3319-9480-d1a9d62cc943 St John's College Library], Cedric Price Collection, 2024)
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| The full [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Potteries_Thinkbelt Potteries Thinkbelt] documentation, including three bound copies of the [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Report report] and all of the [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Drawings drawings], is held in the Cedric Price fonds, where [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Condition conditions] governing [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Access access] are by [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Appointments appointment] only. This presents obvious difficulties for those of us without direct [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Access access] to the fonds.
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== FOREWORD ==

On 16 June 2024 I wrote to the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) asking:—

* "...is the content of the copy of the [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Report report] entitled 'Potteries Think Belt: A [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Plan plan] for the establishment of a major advanced educational industry in North Staffordshire' (Reference. Number: DR2004: 0089) the same as the content published in [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Architectural_design Architectural Design], October 1966?"

On 26 June 2024, I received a reply from the CCA offering to send me a PDF document containing reference images of the report by the end of July. In the event, the file was shared with me on 8 August 2024.

Thus this article is able to take as its starting point the content of the report, an unpublished manuscript completed in February 1966, and compare it with the content of the article published in [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Architectural_design Architectural Design] in October 1966.

It assumes:—

* ... that the Potteries Thinkbelt study was a working hypothesis [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Constructed constructed] by [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Cedric_Price Cedric Price] as a basis for further ongoing [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Research research].

For the purposes of this article I have provided facsimiles of both the report and the article together with extracts from research notes picking out the main points.
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== FACSIMILES OF THE KEY DOCUMENTS ==

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• Facsimile of the cover of the report completed in [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/w/images/4/4a/PTB_report.pdf February 1966]

* Click [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/w/images/4/4a/PTB_report.pdf here] to read a facsimile of the full report

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• Facsimile of the cover of the article published in [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/w/images/9/9e/PTb_AD_article_.pdf October 1966]

* Click [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/w/images/9/9e/PTb_AD_article_.pdf here] to read a facsimile of the full article

[https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/w/images/9/9e/PTb_AD_article_.pdf Learn More]

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== ANALYSIS OF THE UNPUBLISHED REPORT ==

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== • REPORT COVER ==

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Notes

Reference Number: DR2004:0089

* Title: 'Potteries Think Belt: A [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Plan plan] for the establishment of a major advanced educational industry in North Staffordshire'

Form: textual [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Records records]

Catalogued items within this file 0

People:

* [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Cedric_Price Cedric Price] (archive creator)

Description:

* three bound [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Report reports] of 'Potteries Think Belt: A [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Plan plan] for the establishment of a major advanced educational industry in North Staffordshire', Feb. 1966

[https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Quantity Quantity] / Object type:

* 1 textual record(s)

Extent and Medium:

* 0.02 l.m. of textual records

[https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Credit Credit] line:

* [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Cedric_Price Cedric Price] fonds
* Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture / Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal

Folder Number:

* 144-118-002
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== • GENERAL INDEX: DRAWINGS ==

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They provide links to digitized copies of the originals archived in the [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Cedric_Price Cedric Price] fonds at the Canadian Centre for [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Architecture Architecture], Montréal.
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• [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Potteries_Thinkbelt_study:_Further_ongoing_research#OVERALL_PLAN OVERALL PLAN]

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• [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Potteries_Thinkbelt_study:_Further_ongoing_research#FACULTY_AREAS FACULTY AREAS]

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• [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Potteries_Thinkbelt_study:_Further_ongoing_research#TRANSFER_AREAS TRANSFER AREAS]

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== • 1.0 INTRODUCTION ==

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Cedric Price felt that one of the major weaknesses of the British University system was:

* "The lack of awareness of both the correct scale and intensity at which such education should occur. Present institutions are both too small and too exclusive. Through lack of acceptance of advanced education as a prime national industry, the present context is in danger of lacking, on the one hand, recognisable social relevance, and on the other, the capacity to initiate progress rather than attempt to catch up with it."
* Cedric Price, "1.1 Introduction", Potteries Thinkbelt, (unpublished manuscript), February 1966, Cedric Price fonds.

Cedric Price claimed:—

* "This study helps to indicate a valid national and regional distribution of educational institutions."
* "In addition, through postulating varied forms of exchange utilising electronic static communications systems and equipment together with mobile and variable physical enclosures, the Study demonstrates the resulting physical organisation and indicates the changing validity of finite location."
* "Both the overall planning and detailed architecture of this project suggests the likelihood that education and the need to exchange information can equate to past needs for defence, energy and commerce as a generator of urban [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Location lo]c[https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Location ation] and form: cities caused by learning."
* (ib.)

Cedric Price also claimed:

* "The re-assessment of the contemporary housing requirement in this Study together with an avoidance, at the first development stage, of any "civic design" indicates the order and priorities proposed for urban design method."
* (ib.)
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# [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Laslett Peter Laslett]
# [https://findingaids.lib.buffalo.edu/agents/people/2026 Professor Harold L. Cohen]
# Sol Cornberg
# [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail British Rail]
# [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Cities City] [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Architects Architect]
# [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Cities City] [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Engineer Engineer]
# [https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C1738203 Federation of Clay Industries]
# [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_Labour_(United_Kingdom) Ministry of Labour]
# [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Coal_Board National Coal Board]
# [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Public_health Public health] Department
# [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Newby Frank Newby]
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== • 2.0 NATIONAL POLICY ==

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As Cedric Price explained:

* "The P.T.B. [Price's acronym for the Potteries Thinkbelt] is planned to break down the isolation and peculiarity associated with further education."
* Cedric Price, "2.2 Educational", Potteries Thinkbelt (unpublished manuscript).
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== • 3.0 REGIONAL IMPLICATIONS ==

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[https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/157197853-the-west-midlands The West Midlands : a Regional Study]

Cedric Price was well aware of the dire conditions in North Staffordshire and wanted to give something back to his homeland:

* "This area of North Staffordshire—including the Potteries and Newcastle-under-Lyme—is economically less prosperous than the rest of the region. As far as built physical environment goes, it is a disaster area—largely unchanged since its industrial expansion throughout the nineteenth century."
* Cedric Price, "3.0 Regional Implications" and "3.1 West Midlands Regional Study, HMSO 1965", Potteries Thinkbelt, (unpublished manuscript), February 1966, Cedric Price fonds.

Cedric Price noted as well that the Keele technical college remained aloof from the real needs of the Potteries:

* "The first post-war New University at Keele has shown the slowest growth of all Universities (present student population approximately 1000) has little contact with the area and few faculties related to the industrial content of the area."
* Cedric Price, "3.2 Educational", Potteries Thinkbelt (unpublished manuscript).
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== • 4.0 P.T.B. PLAN ==

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Cedric Price explained that:

* "Its size, 20,000 students, is such that its effect will be national rather than regional."
* Cedric Price, "4.1 Relationship to existing Universities", Potteries Thinkbelt (unpublished manuscript).
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== • 5.0 PROPOSALS - GENERAL ==

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Cedric Price considered mobility and flexibility to be essential to the success of the project:

* "The proposed development is planned to enable advanced education to be undertaken in conditions taking full advantage of present day national and individual mobility. However, it is so designed to prevent its form and organisation from being restrictive in the future. [...] A far greater mobility of students between all educational establishments is envisaged. This necessitates calculated “slack” in the educational spatial capacity so planned."
* Cedric Price, "5.1 Educational", Potteries Thinkbelt (unpublished manuscript).

The Thinkbelt, Cedric Price promised, would:

* "...replace the existing rigid age and time structuring of university occupancy with a more elastic system enabling full participation by part-time and re-education factions. The pure and applied science and engineering bias of the P.T.B. involves an emphasis on large flexible organisation of faculties with easy links to national networks."
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== • 6.0 PROPOSALS - PARTICULAR ==

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Madeley was the largest of the Transfer Areas. Cedric Price designed the area to permit easy linkage between the internal Thinkbelt rail and road systems and the national M6 motorway, and to provide "facilities for handling, assembly and construction of large scale goods and equipment."

The Meir Transfer Area linked the Thinkbelt network to an airfield, "providing facilities for rapid exchange of personnel or lightweight goods from P.T.B. to national or international networks."

# [https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=15.0&lat=52.97717&lon=-2.10714&layers=257&b=1&o=100&marker=53.01817,-2.27871 Meir]
# [https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=14.0&lat=53.00232&lon=-2.34241&layers=257&b=1&o=100&marker=53.01817,-2.27871 Madeley]
# [https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=15.0&lat=53.06712&lon=-2.20063&layers=257&b=1&o=100&marker=53.01817,-2.27871 Pitts Hill]

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Cedric Price designed six types of mobile, rail-based units to roam the rail lines of the Thinkbelt.

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# [https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=16.0&lat=53.01862&lon=-2.27797&layers=257&b=1&o=100 Silverdale]
# [https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=15.0&lat=53.06230&lon=-2.20563&layers=257&b=1&o=100&marker=53.01817,-2.27871 Tunstall/Pitts Hill]
# [https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=15.0&lat=52.99822&lon=-2.15664&layers=257&b=1&o=100 Fenton/Longton]

* Hanley - [https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=15.0&lat=53.01088&lon=-2.17965&layers=257&b=1&o=100&marker=53.01817,-2.27871 Shelton Iron and Steel Works]
* [https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=16.0&lat=53.01862&lon=-2.27797&layers=257&b=1&o=100 Silverdale Colliery]
* [https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=15.0&lat=53.00628&lon=-2.28679&layers=257&b=1&o=100&marker=53.01817,-2.27871 Keele]

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== • 7.0. GLOSSARY OF TERMS ==

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== • 8.0 BIBLIOGRAPHY ==

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== ANALYSIS OF THE PUBLISHED ARTICLE ==

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== • ARTICLE [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Cover COVER] ==

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• 'Potteries Thinkbelt: [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Perspective Perspective] and [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Details detail]', courtesy of CCA

[https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Preliminaries Preliminary] [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Sketches sketch] of [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/View view] from train arriving at transfer [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Area area]. The [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Drawings drawing] describes [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Cedric_Price Cedric Price's] efforts to ascribe 'an [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Aesthetics aesthetic] [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Quality quality] to the idea of indeterminacy' (Jeremy Melvin)
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== • LIFE-CONDITIONING ==

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[https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Cedric_Price Cedric Price] challenged [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Architects architects] to recognise that their true [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Objective objective] should not be the creation of monuments symbolising the "image of a [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Cities city]", but simply the provision of the means of "improvement of the [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Quality quality] of [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Life life]".

[https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Cedric_Price Cedric Price] refused to refer to the Thinkbelt as a [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Universities university] because he disliked the upper class connotations of the word, complaining that [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Universities universities] were little more than "[https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Medieval medieval] [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Castle castles] with [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Power power] [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Points points] [electrical outlets], located in gentlemanly seclusion".

In his introductory remarks, Robin Middleton underscored [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Cedric_Price Cedric Price's] idea of education as industry:

* "The [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Potteries_Thinkbelt Potteries Thinkbelt] is a seriously considered [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Project project] for revitalising that [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Area area] in northern Staffordshire which has for generations depended for its [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Livelihood livelihood] and all sense of [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Communities community] on the [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Manufacture manufacture] of pottery. This industry has now become [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Stagnant stagnant]; the [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Area area] a wasteland. [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Cedric_Price Cedric Price's] revolutionary [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Proposals proposal] is that advanced education—and in particular advance technical education—should become the new prime industry."

Cedric Price envisioned a new form of community, which rejected traditional notions of public gathering.

* "For students would live all over the area. Their dispersal would mean that they would not live within a self-conscious and artificial 'studnet-community'. They would be members of a whole community, living and working together."
* ib.
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== • INTRODUCTION ==

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[https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Cedric_Price Cedric Price] updated the text from the report. For example:

* "The prime weakness of the advanced educational system in Britain is a lack of awareness of both the correct [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Scale scale] and intensity at which such education should occur.
* Institutions today are too small and too exclusive. Because advanced education is not regarded as a major national industry, it is in danger of failing to achieve both a recognizable social relevance and a [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Capacity capacity] to initiate [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Progress progress] rather than attempt to [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Catch catch] up with it."

In a key change from the report, [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Cedric_Price Cedric Price] now claimed:—

* "This study proposes a valid national and [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Regional regional] distribution of educational [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Institution institutions]."

Cedric Price wrote:

* "...further education and re-education must be viewed as a major industrial undertaking and not as a service run by gentlemen for the few."

Cedric Price was adamant that the Potteries Thinkbelt would have a deliberate "bias towards pure and applied science and engineering".
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== • INTRODUCTION CONTINUED ==

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Cedric Price hoped that the close integration of the project with the community at large would further break down the distinction between learning and living, allowing education to become a normal part of the daily life of the community:

* "The system by which the public is self-consciously invited to participate, on sufferance, in certain activities in existing universities will not obtain in the PTb, since the flexibility of learning equipment and methods will allow national participation by students in fields at present rigidly defined as secondary or adult education."

Students would benefit from observing and analysing traditional modes of manufacture in existing factories, while new factories could be built to implement the resulting advances in technology:

* "Though the effect of the PTb in providing new forms of employment directly related to the complex will be of short-term benefit to a community once heavily dependent on two basic, and contraction industries [coal and ceramics], the long-term value of the PTb will rest on the capacity of its research facilities to attraact new industries to the area and to reorientate and revitalize existing industries such as ceramic manufacture."
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== • MONTAGES ON AERIAL VIEWS ==

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== • MEIR TRANSFER AREA ==

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== • PITTS HILL TRANSFER AREA ==

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== • MADELEY TRANSFER AREA ==

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== • FACULTY AREAS ==

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| [[File:Item_25459.jpg|link=File:Item_25459.jpg]]
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== • CRATE HOUSING ==

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== • SPRAWL HOUSING ==

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== • CAPSULE HOUSING ==

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== • BATTERY HOUSING ==

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== • LAYOUT OF HOUSING AREAS (1) ==

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== • LAYOUT OF HOUSING AREAS (2) ==

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== • SOCIO-CIVIC DEVELOPMENT ==

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== ALTERNATIVE ICONOGRAPHY ==

On 5 November 2003, speaking at the first Supercrit event, Roger Zogolovitch said:

* "... the POTTERIES THINKBELT demonstrates an effective instance of sustainability etc. etc. — while we know that the strength of the idea still stands in front of us as such a beacon of intelligence: it comes from the way we want to see how society could work with a logical investment, yet we still have to defend it, we have to defend the notion of the imagination and clarity of that thinking against the kind of stupidity, the dull perpetuation of iconography that displaced it."
* Roger Zogolovitch in Hardingham and Rattenbury (2007) 'Supercrit #1: Cedric Price POTTERIES THINKBELT', p.85

The images below enable one to make comparisons between the sites as they were before the Potteries Thinkbelt study and as they are in 2024.

Thus this article hypothesises:—

* ... that the Potteries Thinkbelt represents a default position with which alternative development can be compared.

This is evidenced in the satellite images provided by the National Library of Scotland (NLS) in the Map images below.

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== • OVERALL PLAN ==

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• Exported QGIS map to image indicating overall plan as part of further ongoing research based on the Potteries Thinkbelt study. Click [https://archiblog.github.io/Map-of-the-PTb/ here] to access map.
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== • FACULTY AREAS ==

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| [[File:Item_25350_-_Faculty_Areas.png|link=File:Item_25350_-_Faculty_Areas.png]]
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• Exported QGIS map to image indicating faculty areas as part of further ongoing research based on the Potteries Thinkbelt study. Click [https://archiblog.github.io/Map-of-the-PTb/ here] to access map.

The rows of thumbnail images below include screenshots from a map of the PTb created in QGIS flanked by OS [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Map maps] showing the [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Site sites] before the PTb in 1961 (left) and satellite images (right) showing the [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Site sites] after the PTb in 2024.

Hyperlinks to each OS [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Map map] and satellite image on the NLS website enable one to 'learn more' about the faculty areas.

[https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/NBS nb] The 'Change [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Transparency transparency] of overlay' slider enables further ongoing [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Research research].

{|
| [[File:Item_25446_REV_-_Silverdale_Faculty_Area_map.png|link=File:Item_25446_REV_-_Silverdale_Faculty_Area_map.png]][https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=15.0&lat=53.01647&lon=-2.26801&layers=10&b=ESRIWorld&o=100 Learn More]
| [[File:Item_25460.png|link=File:Item_25460.png]]• Silverdale Faculty Area
| [[File:Item_25449_-_Silverdale_Faculty_Area_sat.png|link=File:Item_25449_-_Silverdale_Faculty_Area_sat.png]][https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=15.0&lat=53.01647&lon=-2.26801&layers=10&b=ESRIWorld&o=0 Learn More]
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| [[File:Item_25269_Map_of_the_PTb_-_Build_2.png|link=File:Item_25269_Map_of_the_PTb_-_Build_2.png]][https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=15.0&lat=53.05718&lon=-2.20442&layers=10&b=ESRIWorld&o=100 Learn More]
| [[File:Item_25458_-_Tunstall-Pitts_Hill_Faculty_Area_QGIS.png|link=File:Item_25458_-_Tunstall-Pitts_Hill_Faculty_Area_QGIS.png]]• Tunstall/Pitts Hill Faculty Area
| [[File:Item_25450_-_Tunstall-Pitts_Hill_Faculty_Area_sat.png|link=File:Item_25450_-_Tunstall-Pitts_Hill_Faculty_Area_sat.png]][https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=15.0&lat=53.05718&lon=-2.20442&layers=10&b=ESRIWorld&o=0 Learn More]
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| [[File:Item_25448_-_Fenton-Longton_Faculty_Area_map.png|link=File:Item_25448_-_Fenton-Longton_Faculty_Area_map.png]][https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=15.0&lat=52.99565&lon=-2.15060&layers=10&b=ESRIWorld&o=100 Learn More]
| [[File:Item_25459.jpg|link=File:Item_25459.jpg]]• Fenton/Longton Faculty Area
| [[File:Item_25451_-_Fenton-Longton_Faculty_Area_sat.png|link=File:Item_25451_-_Fenton-Longton_Faculty_Area_sat.png]][https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=15.0&lat=52.99565&lon=-2.15060&layers=10&b=ESRIWorld&o=0 Learn More]
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== • TRANSFER AREAS ==

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• Exported QGIS map to image indicating transfer areas as part of further ongoing research based on the Potteries Thinkbelt study. Click [https://archiblog.github.io/Map-of-the-PTb/ here] to access map.

The rows of thumbnail images below include diagrams from [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Cedric_Price Cedric Price]'s [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Drawings drawing] numbers 60 flanked by OS [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Map maps] showing the [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Site sites] before the PTb in 1961 (left) and satellite images (right) showing the [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Site sites] after the PTb in 2024.

Hyperlinks to each OS [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Map map] and satellite image on the NLS website enable one to 'learn more' about the transfer areas.

[https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/NBS nb] The 'Change [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Transparency transparency] of overlay' slider enables further ongoing [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Research research].

{|
| [[File:Item_25443_-_Pitts_Hill_Transfer_Area_map.png|link=File:Item_25443_-_Pitts_Hill_Transfer_Area_map.png]][https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=15.0&lat=53.06700&lon=-2.20087&layers=10&b=ESRIWorld&o=100 Learn More]
| [[File:Item_25440_-_Pitts_Hill_Transfer_Area.png|link=File:Item_25440_-_Pitts_Hill_Transfer_Area.png]]• Dwg No 60 - Diagram of Pitts Hill Transfer Area
| [[File:Item_25456_-_Pitts_Hill_Transfer_Area_sat.png|link=File:Item_25456_-_Pitts_Hill_Transfer_Area_sat.png]][https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=15.0&lat=53.06700&lon=-2.20087&layers=10&b=ESRIWorld&o=0 Learn More]
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| [[File:Item_25444_-_Madeley_Transfer_Area_map.png|link=File:Item_25444_-_Madeley_Transfer_Area_map.png]][https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=15.0&lat=52.99399&lon=-2.32970&layers=10&b=ESRIWorld&o=100 Learn More]
| [[File:Item_25441_-_Madeley_Transfer_Area.png|link=File:Item_25441_-_Madeley_Transfer_Area.png]]• Dwg No 60 - Diagram of Madely Transfer Area
| [[File:Item_25454_-_Madeley_Transfer_Area_sat.png|link=File:Item_25454_-_Madeley_Transfer_Area_sat.png]][https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=15.0&lat=52.99399&lon=-2.32970&layers=10&b=ESRIWorld&o=0 Learn More]
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| [[File:Item_25452_-_Meir_Transfer_Area_map.png|link=File:Item_25452_-_Meir_Transfer_Area_map.png]][https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=15.0&lat=52.96836&lon=-2.09776&layers=10&b=ESRIWorld&o=100 Learn More]
| [[File:Item_25442_-_Meir_Transfer_Area.png|link=File:Item_25442_-_Meir_Transfer_Area.png]]• Dwg No 60 - Diagram of Meir Transfer Area
| [[File:Item_25455_-_Meir_Transfer_Area_sat.png|link=File:Item_25455_-_Meir_Transfer_Area_sat.png]][https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=15.0&lat=52.96836&lon=-2.09776&layers=10&b=ESRIWorld&o=0 Learn More]
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== • HOUSING AREAS ==

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• Exported QGIS map to image indicating housing areas as part of further ongoing research based on the Potteries Thinkbelt study. Click [https://archiblog.github.io/Map-of-the-PTb/ here] to access map.

The rows of thumbnail images below include Cedric Price's drawings numbers 80 to 92 inclusive flanked by OS maps showing the sites before the PTb in 1961 (left) and satellite images (right) showing the sites after the PTb in 2024.

Hyperlinks to each OS map and satellite image on the NLS website enable one to 'learn more' about the housing areas.

[https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/NBS nb] The 'Change [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Transparency transparency] of overlay' slider enables further ongoing [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Research research].

{|
| [[File:Item_25373_nls_Map.png|link=File:Item_25373_nls_Map.png]][https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=15.0&lat=53.05194&lon=-2.22629&layers=10&b=ESRIWorld&o=100&marker=53.01817,-2.27871 Learn More]
| [[File:Item_25356.png|link=File:Item_25356.png]] • Dwg No 80 - Sites 1, 2, 3
| [[File:Item_25372_nls_Sat.png|link=File:Item_25372_nls_Sat.png]] [https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=15.0&lat=53.05194&lon=-2.22629&layers=10&b=ESRIWorld&o=0&marker=53.01817,-2.27871 Learn More]
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| [[File:Item_25377_nls_map.png|link=File:Item_25377_nls_map.png]][https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=15.2&lat=53.05451&lon=-2.19568&layers=10&b=ESRIWorld&o=100&marker=53.01817,-2.27871 Learn More]
| [[File:Item_25357.png|link=File:Item_25357.png]]• Dwg No 81 - Site 4
| [[File:Item_25378_nls_sat.png|link=File:Item_25378_nls_sat.png]][https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=15.2&lat=53.05451&lon=-2.19568&layers=10&b=ESRIWorld&o=0&marker=53.01817,-2.27871 Learn More]
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| [[File:Item_25382_nls_map.png|link=File:Item_25382_nls_map.png]][https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=15.0&lat=53.04314&lon=-2.18482&layers=10&b=ESRIWorld&o=100 Learn More]
| [[File:Item_25358.png|link=File:Item_25358.png]]• Dwg No 82 - Sites 5, 6, 7
| [[File:Item_25383_nls_sat.png|link=File:Item_25383_nls_sat.png]][https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=15.0&lat=53.04314&lon=-2.18482&layers=10&b=ESRIWorld&o=0 Learn More]
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| [[File:Item_25387_nls_map.png|link=File:Item_25387_nls_map.png]][https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=15.0&lat=53.03468&lon=-2.20365&layers=10&b=ESRIWorld&o=100 Learn More]
| [[File:Item_25359.png|link=File:Item_25359.png]]• Dwg No 83 - Site 8
| [[File:Item_25388_nls_sat.png|link=File:Item_25388_nls_sat.png]][https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=15.0&lat=53.03468&lon=-2.20365&layers=10&b=ESRIWorld&o=0 Learn More]
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| [[File:Item_25392_nls_map.png|link=File:Item_25392_nls_map.png]][https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=15.0&lat=53.01651&lon=-2.20390&layers=10&b=ESRIWorld&o=100 Learn More]
| [[File:Item_25360.png|link=File:Item_25360.png]]• Dwg No 84 - Sites 9, 13
| [[File:Item_25393_nls_sat.png|link=File:Item_25393_nls_sat.png]][https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=15.0&lat=53.01651&lon=-2.20390&layers=10&b=ESRIWorld&o=0 Learn More]
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| [[File:Item_25397_nls_map.png|link=File:Item_25397_nls_map.png]][https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=15.0&lat=53.01611&lon=-2.23286&layers=10&b=ESRIWorld&o=100 Learn More]
| [[File:Item_25361.png|link=File:Item_25361.png]]• Dwg No 85 - Sites 10, 11
| [[File:Item_25398_nls_sat.png|link=File:Item_25398_nls_sat.png]][https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=15.0&lat=53.01611&lon=-2.23286&layers=10&b=ESRIWorld&o=0 Learn More]
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| [[File:Item_25402_nls_map.png|link=File:Item_25402_nls_map.png]][https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=15.0&lat=53.01957&lon=-2.28098&layers=10&b=ESRIWorld&o=100 Learn More]
| [[File:Item_25362.png|link=File:Item_25362.png]]• Dwg No 86 - Site 12
| [[File:Item_25403_nls_sat.png|link=File:Item_25403_nls_sat.png]][https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=15.0&lat=53.01957&lon=-2.28098&layers=10&b=ESRIWorld&o=0 Learn More]
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| [[File:Item_25407_nls_map.png|link=File:Item_25407_nls_map.png]][https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=15.0&lat=53.00797&lon=-2.17708&layers=10&b=ESRIWorld&o=100 Learn More]
| [[File:Item_25363.png|link=File:Item_25363.png]]• Dwg No 87 - Site 14
| [[File:Item_25408_nls_sat.png|link=File:Item_25408_nls_sat.png]][https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=15.0&lat=53.00797&lon=-2.17708&layers=10&b=ESRIWorld&o=0 Learn More]
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| [[File:Item_25412_nls_map.png|link=File:Item_25412_nls_map.png]][https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=15.0&lat=52.98942&lon=-2.14496&layers=10&b=ESRIWorld&o=100 Learn More]
| [[File:Item_25364.png|link=File:Item_25364.png]]• Dwg No 88 - Site 15
| [[File:Item_25413_nls_sat.png|link=File:Item_25413_nls_sat.png]][https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=15.0&lat=52.98942&lon=-2.14496&layers=10&b=ESRIWorld&o=0 Learn More]
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| [[File:Item_25417_nls_map.png|link=File:Item_25417_nls_map.png]][https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=15.0&lat=52.99804&lon=-2.14703&layers=10&b=ESRIWorld&o=100 Learn More]
| [[File:Item_25365.png|link=File:Item_25365.png]]• Dwg No 89 - Site 16
| [[File:Item_25418_nls_sat.png|link=File:Item_25418_nls_sat.png]][https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=15.0&lat=52.99804&lon=-2.14703&layers=10&b=ESRIWorld&o=0 Learn More]
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| [[File:Item_25422_nls_map.png|link=File:Item_25422_nls_map.png]][https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=15.0&lat=52.98424&lon=-2.12230&layers=10&b=ESRIWorld&o=100 Learn More]
| [[File:Item_25366.png|link=File:Item_25366.png]]• Dwg No 90 - Site 17
| [[File:Item_25423_nls_sat.png|link=File:Item_25423_nls_sat.png]][https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=15.0&lat=52.98424&lon=-2.12230&layers=10&b=ESRIWorld&o=0 Learn More]
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| [[File:Item_25427_nls_map.png|link=File:Item_25427_nls_map.png]][https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=15.0&lat=52.97144&lon=-2.11007&layers=10&b=ESRIWorld&o=100 Learn More]
| [[File:Item_25367.png|link=File:Item_25367.png]]• Dwg No 91 - Site 18
| [[File:Item_25428_nls_sat.png|link=File:Item_25428_nls_sat.png]][https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=15.0&lat=52.97144&lon=-2.11007&layers=10&b=ESRIWorld&o=0 Learn More]
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| [[File:Item_25432_nls_map.png|link=File:Item_25432_nls_map.png]][https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=15.0&lat=52.97573&lon=-2.10137&layers=10&b=ESRIWorld&o=100 Learn More]
| [[File:Item_25368.png|link=File:Item_25368.png]]• Dwg No 92 - Site 19
| [[File:Item_25433_nls_sat.png|link=File:Item_25433_nls_sat.png]][https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=15.0&lat=52.97573&lon=-2.10137&layers=10&b=ESRIWorld&o=0 Learn More]
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== FURTHER ONGOING RESEARCH ==

* [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/ATOM:_A_generating_system_designed_by_Cedric_Price ATOM: A generating system designed by Cedric Price]
* [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Beeching_cuts:_The_railway_network_in_Nottinghamshire Beeching cuts: The railway network in Nottinghamshire]
* [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Disaster_planning:_North_Staffs Disaster Planning: North Staffs]
* [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Disaster_Planning:_Notts Disaster Planning: Notts]
* [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/DOMESTIKIT:_World-Wide_Dwelling_Service DOMESTIKIT: World-Wide Dwelling Service]
* [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Dukeries_Thinkbelt Dukeries Thinkbelt]
* [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/EDUKIT:_World_Educational_System EDUKIT: World Educational System]
* [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Housing_Research_by_Cedric_Price Housing Research by Cedric Price]
* [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Miners%27_strike:_The_coal_industry_in_Nottinghamshire Miners' Strike: The coal industry in Nottinghamshire]
* [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/QGIS_%22What_about_Learning_More%3F%22 QGIS "What about Learning More?"]
* [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/The_Commons The Commons]
* [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Varsity_Line Varsity Line]

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== Related articles on Designing Buildings ==

Potteries Thinkbelt

Potteries Thinkbelt study

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BLENDER: A Sample Lesson

2026-04-07T14:59:00Z

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[[File:Bmi_structure_system_reference_v01.png|link=File:Bmi_structure_system_reference_v01.png]]• Copy of the image considered best by the author for the first Blender model. Source: Cedric Price fonds, CCA. [1]

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== Session 1 ==

For the first session, the author recommends:—

* ... that students begin with the pink structural systems diagram (i.e. the fifth image in the set).

The image shows:

* pink floor plates
* central vertical service/core spine
* circulation arrows
* hanging deck logic
* sectional structural details at the bottom

Thus it is regarded as the best starting point.

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== Related articles in [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Designing Designing] [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Building Buildings] ==

Essential 3D Modeling Tools: The Top 5 Must-Haves for Designers

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BLENDER: A Sample Lesson

2026-04-07T14:53:29Z

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[[File:Bmi_structure_system_reference_v01.png|link=File:Bmi_structure_system_reference_v01.png]]• Copy of the image considered best by the author for the first Blender model. Source: Cedric Price fonds, CCA. [1]

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== Session 1 ==

For the first session, the author recommends:—

* ... that students begin with the pink structural systems diagram (i.e. the fifth image in the set).

The image shows:

* pink floor plates
* central vertical service/core spine
* circulation arrows
* hanging deck logic
* sectional structural details at the bottom

Thus it is regarded as the best starting point.

[[Category:Articles_needing_more_work]] [[Category:Projects_and_case_studies]] [[Category:Research_/_Innovation]]

BLENDER: A Sample Lesson

2026-04-07T14:52:05Z

Archiblog:

[[File:Bmi_structure_system_reference_v01.png|link=File:Bmi_structure_system_reference_v01.png]]• Copy of the image considered best by the author for the first Blender model. Source: Cedric Price fonds, CCA. [1]

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== Session 1 ==

For the first session, the author recommends:—

* ... that students begin with the pink structural systems diagram (i.e. the fifth image in the set).

The image shows:

* pink floor plates
* central vertical service/core spine
* circulation arrows
* hanging deck logic
* sectional structural details at the bottom

Thus it is regarded as the strongest starting point.

[[Category:Articles_needing_more_work]] [[Category:Projects_and_case_studies]] [[Category:Research_/_Innovation]]

BLENDER: A Sample Lesson

2026-04-07T14:50:30Z

Archiblog:

BLENDER: A Sample Lesson

2026-04-07T14:42:47Z

Archiblog:

[[File:Bmi_structure_system_reference_v01.png|link=File:Bmi_structure_system_reference_v01.png]]• Copy of the image considered best by the author for the first Blender model. Source: Cedric Price fonds, CCA. [1]

== Step 1 — import the systems image ==

In Blender:

Shift + A → Image → Reference

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BLENDER: A Sample Lesson

2026-04-07T14:38:26Z

Archiblog:

[[File:Bmi_structure_system_reference_v01.png|link=File:Bmi_structure_system_reference_v01.png]]• Copy of the image considered best by the author for the first Blender model. Source: Cedric Price fonds, CCA.

== Step 1 — import the systems image ==

In Blender:

Shift + A → Image → Reference

[[Category:Articles_needing_more_work]]

BLENDER: A Sample Lesson

2026-04-07T14:36:56Z

Archiblog:

[[File:Bmi_structure_system_reference_v01.png|link=File:Bmi_structure_system_reference_v01.png]]• Copy of the image considered best for the first Blender model. Source: Cedric Price fonds, CCA.

== Step 1 — import the systems image ==

In Blender:

Shift + A → Image → Reference

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BLENDER: A Sample Lesson

2026-04-07T14:32:54Z

Archiblog:

[[File:Bmi_structure_system_reference_v01.png|link=File:Bmi_structure_system_reference_v01.png]]• Best image for the first Blender model (bmi_structure_system_reference_v01). Source: Cedric Price fonds, CCA.

== Step 1 — import the systems image ==

In Blender:

Shift + A → Image → Reference

[[Category:Articles_needing_more_work]]

BLENDER: A Sample Lesson

2026-04-07T14:26:55Z

Archiblog:

[[File:Bmi_structure_system_reference_v01.png|link=File:Bmi_structure_system_reference_v01.png]]• Best image for the first Blender model (bmi_structure_system_reference_v01). Source: Norman Fellows fonds.

== Step 1 — import the systems image ==

In Blender:

Shift + A → Image → Reference

[[Category:Articles_needing_more_work]]

BLENDER: A Sample Lesson

2026-04-07T14:25:15Z

Archiblog:

[[File:Bmi_structure_system_reference_v01.png|link=File:Bmi_structure_system_reference_v01.png]]• bmi_structure_system_reference_v01. Source: Norman Fellows fonds.

== Step 1 — import the systems image ==

In Blender:

Shift + A → Image → Reference

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BLENDER: A Sample Lesson

2026-04-07T14:22:03Z

Archiblog:

== [[File:Bmi structure system reference v01.png]]Step 1 — import the systems image ==

In Blender:

Shift + A → Image → Reference

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File:Bmi structure system reference v01.png

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Archiblog: Best image for the first Blender model For Session 1, I strongly recommend we begin with the pink structural systems diagram (the fifth image in my set). The one showing: pink floor plates central vertical service/core spine circulation arrows hanging

Best image for the first Blender model For Session 1, I strongly recommend we begin with the pink structural systems diagram (the fifth image in my set). The one showing: pink floor plates central vertical service/core spine circulation arrows hanging deck logic sectional structural details at the bottom This is, in my view, the strongest starting point.

BLENDER: A Sample Lesson

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== Step 1 — import the systems image ==

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ARCHITECTURE: Redefining it as progressing

2026-04-04T08:56:07Z

Archiblog:

[[File:Item 27021.png|link=File:Item_27018.png]]

Figure 1. Working study of the Cedric Price Progress Chart in Inkscape. Source: Norman Fellows fonds.

* "In placing Price within this time and setting (the 1960s), one can identify in his work a strong belief in the new solution and a confidence in the future sustained by his full commitment to rationality and progress. But it was to be on the crucial question of what for him constituted this progress (that is, which architecture might be said to be progressing and which degenerating) that he was to draw away from his contemporaries."
* (Royston Landau (1984) 'A Philosophy of Enabling', in Cedric Price Works II)

Thus this article assumes:—

* ... that there are two classes of architecture, namely:— 'progressing' and 'non-progressing' or 'degenerating'.

The purpose of this article is:—

* to redefine architecture as progressing or to separate the wheat from the chaff.

Current working state of the polar-grid and spiral framework used to map the selected Cedric Price projects. Shown as an active research drawing and updated iteratively as the thesis develops.

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== How can architecture be redefined as progressing? ==

 
The PTb Spiral is introduced here as a working diagram of evidence rather than a fixed chronology. The selected projects of Cedric Price are positioned as successive moments in the redefinition of architecture from static object toward temporal, procedural, and systems-based progression.

=== Defining “progressing” ===

The present enquiry begins with a distinction articulated by Roy Landau in his introductory essay to Cedric Price Works II. Landau’s terms — progressing and its implied opposite, degenerating — establish the conceptual field within which Cedric Price’s selected projects may be examined. The purpose here is not immediately to classify architecture into fixed categories, but to ask by what criteria architecture may be understood as progressing, and whether Price’s work provides evidence of such a redefinition.

=== Projects as evidence ===

text

=== BMI and Medikit: diagram as epistemic instrument ===

The question of architectural progression becomes most explicit in Cedric Price’s Progress Chart for the Birmingham and Midland Institute and in Dugdale et al.’s Systems Diagram for Medikit. These figures are not merely illustrations of projects but instruments through which architecture reflects upon its own procedures, blindspots, and developmental possibilities.

=== Diagram as epistemic instrument ===

text

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2026-04-04T08:54:56Z

Archiblog: Working study of the Cedric Price Progress Chart in Inkscape. Source: Norman Fellows fonds.

Working study of the Cedric Price Progress Chart in Inkscape. Source: Norman Fellows fonds.

ARCHITECTURE: Redefining it as progressing

2026-04-03T16:22:04Z

Archiblog:

[[File:Item_27018.png|link=File:Item_27018.png]]

Figure 1. PTb Spiral (working drawing): evidential framework for the enquiry. Source: Norman Fellows fonds.

* "In placing Price within this time and setting (the 1960s), one can identify in his work a strong belief in the new solution and a confidence in the future sustained by his full commitment to rationality and progress. But it was to be on the crucial question of what for him constituted this progress (that is, which architecture might be said to be progressing and which degenerating) that he was to draw away from his contemporaries."
* (Royston Landau (1984) 'A Philosophy of Enabling', in Cedric Price Works II)

Thus this article assumes:—

* ... that there are two classes of architecture, namely:— 'progressing' and 'non-progressing' or 'degenerating'.

The purpose of this article is:—

* to redefine architecture as progressing or to separate the wheat from the chaff.

Current working state of the polar-grid and spiral framework used to map the selected Cedric Price projects. Shown as an active research drawing and updated iteratively as the thesis develops.

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== How can architecture be redefined as progressing? ==

 
The PTb Spiral is introduced here as a working diagram of evidence rather than a fixed chronology. The selected projects of Cedric Price are positioned as successive moments in the redefinition of architecture from static object toward temporal, procedural, and systems-based progression.

=== Defining “progressing” ===

The present enquiry begins with a distinction articulated by Roy Landau in his introductory essay to Cedric Price Works II. Landau’s terms — progressing and its implied opposite, degenerating — establish the conceptual field within which Cedric Price’s selected projects may be examined. The purpose here is not immediately to classify architecture into fixed categories, but to ask by what criteria architecture may be understood as progressing, and whether Price’s work provides evidence of such a redefinition.

=== Projects as evidence ===

text

=== BMI and Medikit: diagram as epistemic instrument ===

The question of architectural progression becomes most explicit in Cedric Price’s Progress Chart for the Birmingham and Midland Institute and in Dugdale et al.’s Systems Diagram for Medikit. These figures are not merely illustrations of projects but instruments through which architecture reflects upon its own procedures, blindspots, and developmental possibilities.

=== Diagram as epistemic instrument ===

text

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ARCHITECTURE: Redefining it as progressing

2026-04-03T16:13:37Z

Archiblog:

[[File:Item_27018.png|link=File:Item_27018.png]]

Figure 1. PTb Spiral (working drawing): evidential framework for the enquiry. Source: Norman Fellows fonds.

* "In placing Price within this time and setting (the 1960s), one can identify in his work a strong belief in the new solution and a confidence in the future sustained by his full commitment to rationality and progress. But it was to be on the crucial question of what for him constituted this progress (that is, which architecture might be said to be progressing and which degenerating) that he was to draw away from his contemporaries."
* (Royston Landau (1984) 'A Philosophy of Enabling', in Cedric Price Works II)

Current working state of the polar-grid and spiral framework used to map the selected Cedric Price projects. Shown as an active research drawing and updated iteratively as the thesis develops.

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== How can architecture be redefined as progressing? ==

 
The PTb Spiral is introduced here as a working diagram of evidence rather than a fixed chronology. The selected projects of Cedric Price are positioned as successive moments in the redefinition of architecture from static object toward temporal, procedural, and systems-based progression.

=== Defining “progressing” ===

The present enquiry begins with a distinction articulated by Roy Landau in his introductory essay to Cedric Price Works II. Landau’s terms — progressing and its implied opposite, degenerating — establish the conceptual field within which Cedric Price’s selected projects may be examined. The purpose here is not immediately to classify architecture into fixed categories, but to ask by what criteria architecture may be understood as progressing, and whether Price’s work provides evidence of such a redefinition.

=== Projects as evidence ===

text

=== BMI and Medikit: diagram as epistemic instrument ===

The question of architectural progression becomes most explicit in Cedric Price’s Progress Chart for the Birmingham and Midland Institute and in Dugdale et al.’s Systems Diagram for Medikit. These figures are not merely illustrations of projects but instruments through which architecture reflects upon its own procedures, blindspots, and developmental possibilities.

=== Diagram as epistemic instrument ===

text

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ARCHITECTURE: Redefining it as progressing

2026-04-03T13:29:35Z

Archiblog:

[[File:Item_27018.png|link=File:Item_27018.png]]

Figure 1. PTb Spiral (working drawing): evidential framework for the enquiry.

Current working state of the polar-grid and spiral framework used to map the selected Cedric Price projects. Shown as an active research drawing and updated iteratively as the thesis develops.

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== How can architecture be redefined as progressing? ==

 
The PTb Spiral is introduced here as a working diagram of evidence rather than a fixed chronology. The selected projects of Cedric Price are positioned as successive moments in the redefinition of architecture from static object toward temporal, procedural, and systems-based progression.

=== Defining “progressing” ===

The present enquiry begins with a distinction articulated by Roy Landau in his introductory essay to Cedric Price Works II. Landau’s terms — progressing and its implied opposite, degenerating — establish the conceptual field within which Cedric Price’s selected projects may be examined. The purpose here is not immediately to classify architecture into fixed categories, but to ask by what criteria architecture may be understood as progressing, and whether Price’s work provides evidence of such a redefinition.

=== Projects as evidence ===

text

=== BMI and Medikit: diagram as epistemic instrument ===

The question of architectural progression becomes most explicit in Cedric Price’s Progress Chart for the Birmingham and Midland Institute and in Dugdale et al.’s Systems Diagram for Medikit. These figures are not merely illustrations of projects but instruments through which architecture reflects upon its own procedures, blindspots, and developmental possibilities.

=== Diagram as epistemic instrument ===

text

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--[[User:Archiblog|Archiblog]] 18:03, 01 Apr 2026 (BST)

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ARCHITECTURE: Redefining it as progressing

2026-04-03T12:47:48Z

Archiblog:

[[File:Item 27018.png]]

Figure 1. PTb Spiral (working drawing): evidential framework for the enquiry.

Current working state of the polar-grid and spiral framework used to map the selected Cedric Price projects. Shown as an active research drawing and updated iteratively as the thesis develops.

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== How can architecture be redefined as progressing? ==

 
The PTb Spiral is introduced here as a working diagram of evidence rather than a fixed chronology. The selected projects of Cedric Price are positioned as successive moments in the redefinition of architecture from static object toward temporal, procedural, and systems-based progression.

=== Defining “progressing” ===

text

=== Projects as evidence ===

text

=== BMI and Medikit: diagram as epistemic instrument ===

The question of architectural progression becomes most explicit in Cedric Price’s Progress Chart for the Birmingham and Midland Institute and in Dugdale et al.’s Systems Diagram for Medikit. These figures are not merely illustrations of projects but instruments through which architecture reflects upon its own procedures, blindspots, and developmental possibilities.

=== Diagram as epistemic instrument ===

text

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--[[User:Archiblog|Archiblog]] 18:03, 01 Apr 2026 (BST)

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ARCHITECTURE: Redefining it as progressing

2026-04-03T12:16:08Z

Archiblog:

[[File:Item_27018.png|link=File:Item_27016_REV_A.png]]Figure 1. PTb Spiral (working drawing): evidential framework for the enquiry.

Current working state of the polar-grid and spiral framework used to map the selected Cedric Price projects. Shown as an active research drawing and updated iteratively as the thesis develops.

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== How can architecture be redefined as progressing? ==

 
The PTb Spiral is introduced here as a working diagram of evidence rather than a fixed chronology. The selected projects of Cedric Price are positioned as successive moments in the redefinition of architecture from static object toward temporal, procedural, and systems-based progression.

=== Defining “progressing” ===

text

=== Projects as evidence ===

text

=== BMI and Medikit: diagram as epistemic instrument ===

The question of architectural progression becomes most explicit in Cedric Price’s Progress Chart for the Birmingham and Midland Institute and in Dugdale et al.’s Systems Diagram for Medikit. These figures are not merely illustrations of projects but instruments through which architecture reflects upon its own procedures, blindspots, and developmental possibilities.

=== Diagram as epistemic instrument ===

text

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--[[User:Archiblog|Archiblog]] 18:03, 01 Apr 2026 (BST)

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ARCHITECTURE: Redefining it as progressing

2026-04-03T11:12:09Z

Archiblog:

[[File:Item_27018.png|link=File:Item_27016_REV_A.png]]Figure 1. PTb Spiral (working drawing): evidential framework for the enquiry.

Current working state of the polar-grid and spiral framework used to map the selected Cedric Price projects. Shown as an active research drawing and updated iteratively as the thesis develops.

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== How can architecture be redefined as progressing? ==

 
The PTb Spiral is introduced here as a working diagram of evidence rather than a fixed chronology. The selected projects of Cedric Price are positioned as successive moments in the redefinition of architecture from static object toward temporal, procedural, and systems-based progression.

=== Defining “progressing” ===

text

=== Projects as evidence ===

text

=== BMI and Medikit: diagram as epistemic instrument ===

text

=== Diagram as epistemic instrument ===

text

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--[[User:Archiblog|Archiblog]] 18:03, 01 Apr 2026 (BST)

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ARCHITECTURE: Redefining it as progressing

2026-04-03T10:58:53Z

Archiblog:

[[File:Item_27018.png|link=File:Item_27016_REV_A.png]]Figure 1. PTb Spiral (working drawing): evidential framework for the enquiry.

Current working state of the polar-grid and spiral framework used to map the selected Cedric Price projects. Shown as an active research drawing and updated iteratively as the thesis develops.

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== How can architecture be redefined as progressing? ==

 
The PTb Spiral is introduced here as a working diagram of evidence rather than a fixed chronology. The selected projects of Cedric Price are positioned as successive moments in the redefinition of architecture from static object toward temporal, procedural, and systems-based progression.

=== Defining “progressing” ===

=== Projects as evidence ===

=== BMI and Medikit: diagram as epistemic instrument ===

=== Diagram as epistemic instrument ===

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--[[User:Archiblog|Archiblog]] 18:03, 01 Apr 2026 (BST)

[[Category:Articles_needing_more_work]]

ARCHITECTURE: Redefining it as progressing

2026-04-03T10:58:05Z

Archiblog:

[[File:Item_27018.png|link=File:Item_27016_REV_A.png]]Figure 1. PTb Spiral (working drawing): evidential framework for the enquiry.

Current working state of the polar-grid and spiral framework used to map the selected Cedric Price projects. Shown as an active research drawing and updated iteratively as the thesis develops.

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== How can architecture be redefined as progressing? ==

 
The PTb Spiral is introduced here as a working diagram of evidence rather than a fixed chronology. The selected projects of Cedric Price are positioned as successive moments in the redefinition of architecture from static object toward temporal, procedural, and systems-based progression.

=== Defining “progressing” ===

=== * Projects as evidence ===

=== * BMI and Medikit: diagram as epistemic instrument ===

=== * Diagram as epistemic instrument ===

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--[[User:Archiblog|Archiblog]] 18:03, 01 Apr 2026 (BST)

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ARCHITECTURE: Redefining it as progressing

2026-04-03T10:54:29Z

Archiblog:

[[File:Item_27018.png|link=File:Item_27016_REV_A.png]]Figure 1. PTb Spiral (working drawing): evidential framework for the enquiry.

Current working state of the polar-grid and spiral framework used to map the selected Cedric Price projects. Shown as an active research drawing and updated iteratively as the thesis develops.

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== How can architecture be redefined as progressing? ==

 
The PTb Spiral is introduced here as a working diagram of evidence rather than a fixed chronology. The selected projects of Cedric Price are positioned as successive moments in the redefinition of architecture from static object toward temporal, procedural, and systems-based progression.

=== * Defining “progressing” ===

=== * Projects as evidence ===

=== * BMI and Medikit: diagram as epistemic instrument ===

=== * Diagram as epistemic instrument ===

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--[[User:Archiblog|Archiblog]] 18:03, 01 Apr 2026 (BST)

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ARCHITECTURE: Redefining it as progressing

2026-04-03T10:53:41Z

Archiblog:

[[File:Item_27018.png|link=File:Item_27016_REV_A.png]]Figure 1. PTb Spiral (working drawing): evidential framework for the enquiry.

Current working state of the polar-grid and spiral framework used to map the selected Cedric Price projects. Shown as an active research drawing and updated iteratively as the thesis develops.

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== How can architecture be redefined as progressing? ==

 
The PTb Spiral is introduced here as a working diagram of evidence rather than a fixed chronology. The selected projects of Cedric Price are positioned as successive moments in the redefinition of architecture from static object toward temporal, procedural, and systems-based progression.

=== * 1.1 Defining “progressing” ===

=== * 1.2 Projects as evidence ===

=== * 1.3 BMI and Medikit: diagram as epistemic instrument ===

=== * 1.4 Diagram as epistemic instrument ===

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--[[User:Archiblog|Archiblog]] 18:03, 01 Apr 2026 (BST)

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ARCHITECTURE: Redefining it as progressing

2026-04-03T10:51:02Z

Archiblog:

[[File:Item_27018.png|link=File:Item_27016_REV_A.png]]Figure 1. PTb Spiral (working drawing): evidential framework for the enquiry.

Current working state of the polar-grid and spiral framework used to map the selected Cedric Price projects. Shown as an active research drawing and updated iteratively as the thesis develops.

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== How can architecture be redefined as progressing? ==

 
The PTb Spiral is introduced here as a working diagram of evidence rather than a fixed chronology. The selected projects of Cedric Price are positioned as successive moments in the redefinition of architecture from static object toward temporal, procedural, and systems-based progression.

=== * 1.1 ===

Defining “progressing”

=== * 1.2 ===

== Cedric Price’s projects as evidence ==

=== *1.3 ===

BMI and Medikit: diagram as epistemic instrument

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--[[User:Archiblog|Archiblog]] 18:03, 01 Apr 2026 (BST)

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ARCHITECTURE: Redefining it as progressing

2026-04-03T10:49:10Z

Archiblog:

[[File:Item_27018.png|link=File:Item_27016_REV_A.png]]Figure 1. PTb Spiral (working drawing): evidential framework for the enquiry.

Current working state of the polar-grid and spiral framework used to map the selected Cedric Price projects. Shown as an active research drawing and updated iteratively as the thesis develops.

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== How can architecture be redefined as progressing? ==

 
The PTb Spiral is introduced here as a working diagram of evidence rather than a fixed chronology. The selected projects of Cedric Price are positioned as successive moments in the redefinition of architecture from static object toward temporal, procedural, and systems-based progression.

= Section 1 =

Defining “progressing”

== Section 2 ==

Cedric Price’s projects as evidence

== Section 3 ==

BMI and Medikit: diagram as epistemic instrument

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--[[User:Archiblog|Archiblog]] 18:03, 01 Apr 2026 (BST)

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ARCHITECTURE: Redefining it as progressing

2026-04-03T10:48:17Z

Archiblog:

[[File:Item_27018.png|link=File:Item_27016_REV_A.png]]Figure 1. PTb Spiral (working drawing): evidential framework for the enquiry.

Current working state of the polar-grid and spiral framework used to map the selected Cedric Price projects. Shown as an active research drawing and updated iteratively as the thesis develops.

= How can architecture be redefined as progressing? =

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== How can architecture be redefined as progressing? ==

 
The PTb Spiral is introduced here as a working diagram of evidence rather than a fixed chronology. The selected projects of Cedric Price are positioned as successive moments in the redefinition of architecture from static object toward temporal, procedural, and systems-based progression.

= Section 1 =

Defining “progressing”

== Section 2 ==

Cedric Price’s projects as evidence

== Section 3 ==

BMI and Medikit: diagram as epistemic instrument

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--[[User:Archiblog|Archiblog]] 18:03, 01 Apr 2026 (BST)

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ARCHITECTURE: Redefining it as progressing

2026-04-03T10:47:45Z

Archiblog:

[[File:Item_27018.png|link=File:Item_27016_REV_A.png]]Figure 1. PTb Spiral (working drawing): evidential framework for the enquiry.

Current working state of the polar-grid and spiral framework used to map the selected Cedric Price projects. Shown as an active research drawing and updated iteratively as the thesis develops.

How can architecture be redefined as progressing?

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== How can architecture be redefined as progressing? ==

 
The PTb Spiral is introduced here as a working diagram of evidence rather than a fixed chronology. The selected projects of Cedric Price are positioned as successive moments in the redefinition of architecture from static object toward temporal, procedural, and systems-based progression.

= Section 1 =

Defining “progressing”

== Section 2 ==

Cedric Price’s projects as evidence

== Section 3 ==

BMI and Medikit: diagram as epistemic instrument

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--[[User:Archiblog|Archiblog]] 18:03, 01 Apr 2026 (BST)

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ARCHITECTURE: Redefining it as progressing

2026-04-03T10:36:45Z

Archiblog:

[[File:Item_27018.png|link=File:Item_27016_REV_A.png]]Figure 1. PTb Spiral (working drawing): evidential framework for the enquiry.

Current working state of the polar-grid and spiral framework used to map the selected Cedric Price projects. Shown as an active research drawing and updated iteratively as the thesis develops.

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== How can architecture be redefined as progressing? ==

 
The PTb Spiral is introduced here as a working diagram of evidence rather than a fixed chronology. The selected projects of Cedric Price are positioned as successive moments in the redefinition of architecture from static object toward temporal, procedural, and systems-based progression.

= Section 1 =

Defining “progressing”

== Section 2 ==

Cedric Price’s projects as evidence

== Section 3 ==

BMI and Medikit: diagram as epistemic instrument

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--[[User:Archiblog|Archiblog]] 18:03, 01 Apr 2026 (BST)

[[Category:Articles_needing_more_work]]

ARCHITECTURE: Redefining it as progressing

2026-04-03T10:33:14Z

Archiblog:

[[File:Item_27018.png|link=File:Item_27016_REV_A.png]]Figure 1. PTb Spiral (working drawing).

Current working state of the polar-grid and spiral framework used to map the selected Cedric Price projects. Shown as an active research drawing and updated iteratively as the thesis develops.

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== How can architecture be redefined as progressing? ==

 
The PTb Spiral is introduced here as a working diagram of evidence rather than a fixed chronology. The selected projects of Cedric Price are positioned as successive moments in the redefinition of architecture from static object toward temporal, procedural, and systems-based progression.

= Section 1 =

Defining “progressing”

== Section 2 ==

Cedric Price’s projects as evidence

== Section 3 ==

BMI and Medikit: diagram as epistemic instrument

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--[[User:Archiblog|Archiblog]] 18:03, 01 Apr 2026 (BST)

[[Category:Articles_needing_more_work]]

ARCHITECTURE: Redefining it as progressing

2026-04-03T10:30:10Z

Archiblog:

[[File:Item_27018.png|link=File:Item_27016_REV_A.png]]

== Figure 1. PTb Spiral (working drawing). ==

 
Current working state of the polar-grid and spiral framework used to map the selected Cedric Price projects. Shown as an active research drawing and updated iteratively as the thesis develops.

== How can architecture be redefined as progressing? ==

 
The PTb Spiral is introduced here as a working diagram of evidence rather than a fixed chronology. The selected projects of Cedric Price are positioned as successive moments in the redefinition of architecture from static object toward temporal, procedural, and systems-based progression.

= Section 1 =

Defining “progressing”

== Section 2 ==

Cedric Price’s projects as evidence

== Section 3 ==

BMI and Medikit: diagram as epistemic instrument

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--[[User:Archiblog|Archiblog]] 18:03, 01 Apr 2026 (BST)

[[Category:Articles_needing_more_work]]

ARCHITECTURE: Redefining it as progressing

2026-04-03T10:28:39Z

Archiblog:

[[File:Item_27018.png|link=File:Item_27016_REV_A.png]]

Figure 1. PTb Spiral (working drawing). 
Current working state of the polar-grid and spiral framework used to map the selected Cedric Price projects. Shown as an active research drawing and updated iteratively as the thesis develops.

How can architecture be redefined as progressing? 
The PTb Spiral is introduced here as a working diagram of evidence rather than a fixed chronology. The selected projects of Cedric Price are positioned as successive moments in the redefinition of architecture from static object toward temporal, procedural, and systems-based progression.

= Section 1 =

Defining “progressing”

== Section 2 ==

Cedric Price’s projects as evidence

== Section 3 ==

BMI and Medikit: diagram as epistemic instrument

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--[[User:Archiblog|Archiblog]] 18:03, 01 Apr 2026 (BST)

[[Category:Articles_needing_more_work]]

ARCHITECTURE: Redefining it as progressing

2026-04-03T10:19:27Z

Archiblog:

[[File:Item_27018.png|link=File:Item_27016_REV_A.png]]

Figure 1. PTb Spiral (working drawing). 
Current construction state of the polar-grid and spiral framework used to map the author’s selected PTb projects. Shown as an active work-in-progress and updated iteratively as the thesis develops.

= Introduction =

== How can architecture be redefined as progressing? ==

This article asks how architecture may be redefined as progressing. Before architecture itself can be reconsidered, the meaning of “progressing” must first be established. The selected projects of Cedric Price are examined as evidence that architecture was being reconceived not as static object, but as an evolving system of temporal, procedural, and social development.

== Section 1 ==

Defining “progressing”

== Section 2 ==

Cedric Price’s projects as evidence

== Section 3 ==

BMI and Medikit: diagram as epistemic instrument

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--[[User:Archiblog|Archiblog]] 18:03, 01 Apr 2026 (BST)

[[Category:Articles_needing_more_work]]

ARCHITECTURE: Redefining it as progressing

2026-04-03T10:18:03Z

Archiblog:

[[File:Item 27018.png|link=File:Item_27016_REV_A.png]]

Figure 1. Post-PTb Spiral (working drawing). 
Current construction state of the polar-grid and spiral framework used to map the author’s post-PTb projects. Shown as an active work-in-progress and updated iteratively as the thesis develops.

= Introduction =

== How can architecture be redefined as progressing? ==

This article asks how architecture may be redefined as progressing. Before architecture itself can be reconsidered, the meaning of “progressing” must first be established. The selected projects of Cedric Price are examined as evidence that architecture was being reconceived not as static object, but as an evolving system of temporal, procedural, and social development.

== Section 1 ==

Defining “progressing”

== Section 2 ==

Cedric Price’s projects as evidence

== Section 3 ==

BMI and Medikit: diagram as epistemic instrument

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--[[User:Archiblog|Archiblog]] 18:03, 01 Apr 2026 (BST)

[[Category:Articles_needing_more_work]]

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Archiblog: DWG No 223/018 PTb Spiral.

DWG No 223/018 PTb Spiral.

ARCHITECTURE: Redefining it as progressing

2026-04-03T09:47:40Z

Archiblog:

ARCHITECTURE: Redefining it as progressing

2026-04-02T13:38:49Z

Archiblog:

[[File:Item_27016_REV_A.png|link=File:Item_27016_REV_A.png]]

Figure 1. Post-PTb Spiral (working drawing). 
Current construction state of the polar-grid and spiral framework used to map the author’s post-PTb projects. Shown as an active work-in-progress and updated iteratively as the thesis develops.

= Is architecture progressing? =

At a time of housing crisis, infrastructural inequality, and accelerating social change, the profession must confront a difficult question: is architecture genuinely progressing in ways that matter?

The article ARCHITECTURE: Redefining it as progressing proposes that architecture can no longer be understood simply as the production of buildings and completed forms. Instead, it asks whether the discipline is advancing the social, spatial, and institutional conditions through which collective life may improve.

The accompanying post-PTb Spiral is presented as a working analytical diagram through which projects, systems and developmental phases may be mapped. Rather than a fixed chronology, it proposes architecture as an evolving field of relationships, thresholds and expanding scales of intervention.

= 1.1 The Progress Chart as an Epistemic Instrument (BMI) =

The discovery that the Birmingham and Midland Institute (BMI/HQ) project survives not only in published form but also through Cedric Price’s original Progress Chart necessitates an important revision to the present line of enquiry. Earlier attempts to speculate upon what a comparable chart for Atom might have looked like now give way to a more grounded and methodologically rigorous approach: the analysis of an actual project instrument produced within Price’s office at the inception of design.

This shift is significant. Rather than retrospectively reconstructing a procedural model from a completed or partially documented project, the BMI Progress Chart offers direct evidence of how architectural thinking was organised, sequenced, and made operational within Price’s practice. It is therefore not simply an illustration of process, but an active design device — a means by which knowledge, uncertainty, timing, and decision-making were themselves structured.

In this sense, the chart functions as an epistemic instrument: a graphic framework through which architecture is understood not as the production of a fixed object, but as the management of evolving conditions, contingent actions, and possible futures. The emphasis falls less upon form than upon the choreography of information, agency, and temporal progression.

The Birmingham and Midland Institute headquarters project, developed between 1967 and 1971, is particularly valuable in this respect. Price conceived it as a dynamic regional “nerve centre,” capable of expansion, consolidation, and eventual contraction over time. The Progress Chart may therefore be read as the procedural counterpart to that conception: an architecture of time, decision, and adaptation.

This provides a stronger basis from which to revisit the later comparison with Tony Dugdale’s Medikit diagram. Where Dugdale’s drawing maps relationships within an operational field, Price’s chart organises the temporal logic by which such a field comes into being. The progression from BMI to Medikit can thus be understood not as repetition, but as the development of a consistent systems-based architectural intelligence.

== 1.2 From BMI to Medikit: Diagram as Operational Field ==

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--[[User:Archiblog|Archiblog]] 18:03, 01 Apr 2026 (BST)

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ARCHITECTURE: Redefining it as progressing

2026-04-02T13:36:42Z

Archiblog:

[[File:Item_27016_REV_A.png|link=File:Item_27016_REV_A.png]]

Figure 1. Post-PTb Spiral (working drawing). 
Current construction state of the polar-grid and spiral framework used to map the author’s post-PTb projects. Shown as an active work-in-progress and updated iteratively as the thesis develops.

= Is architecture progressing? =

At a time of housing crisis, infrastructural inequality, and accelerating social change, the profession must confront a difficult question: is architecture genuinely progressing in ways that matter?

The article ARCHITECTURE: Redefining it as progressing proposes that architecture can no longer be understood simply as the production of buildings and completed forms. Instead, it asks whether the discipline is advancing the social, spatial, and institutional conditions through which collective life may improve.

The accompanying post-PTb Spiral is presented as a working analytical diagram through which projects, systems and developmental phases may be mapped. Rather than a fixed chronology, it proposes architecture as an evolving field of relationships, thresholds and expanding scales of intervention.

= Chapter 1 — The Progress Chart as an Epistemic Instrument (BMI) =

The discovery that the Birmingham and Midland Institute (BMI/HQ) project survives not only in published form but also through Cedric Price’s original Progress Chart necessitates an important revision to the present line of enquiry. Earlier attempts to speculate upon what a comparable chart for Atom might have looked like now give way to a more grounded and methodologically rigorous approach: the analysis of an actual project instrument produced within Price’s office at the inception of design.

This shift is significant. Rather than retrospectively reconstructing a procedural model from a completed or partially documented project, the BMI Progress Chart offers direct evidence of how architectural thinking was organised, sequenced, and made operational within Price’s practice. It is therefore not simply an illustration of process, but an active design device — a means by which knowledge, uncertainty, timing, and decision-making were themselves structured.

In this sense, the chart functions as an epistemic instrument: a graphic framework through which architecture is understood not as the production of a fixed object, but as the management of evolving conditions, contingent actions, and possible futures. The emphasis falls less upon form than upon the choreography of information, agency, and temporal progression.

The Birmingham and Midland Institute headquarters project, developed between 1967 and 1971, is particularly valuable in this respect. Price conceived it as a dynamic regional “nerve centre,” capable of expansion, consolidation, and eventual contraction over time. The Progress Chart may therefore be read as the procedural counterpart to that conception: an architecture of time, decision, and adaptation.

This provides a stronger basis from which to revisit the later comparison with Tony Dugdale’s Medikit diagram. Where Dugdale’s drawing maps relationships within an operational field, Price’s chart organises the temporal logic by which such a field comes into being. The progression from BMI to Medikit can thus be understood not as repetition, but as the development of a consistent systems-based architectural intelligence.

== Section 2 (BMI → Dugdale / Medikit) ==

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ARCHITECTURE: Redefining it as progressing

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Archiblog:

Archiblog's Ordering

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Archiblog: Undo revision 319747 by Archiblog (talk)

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• Double page spread introducing 'Edukit: World Educational System' in AD by Norman Fellows Archiblog [1]

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‘Designing Buildings’ features an article entitled ‘[https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Anticipatory_Design Anticipatory Design]‘ by Norman Fellows under the pseudonym of “Archiblog”. The author’s website dovetails his office jobs with those Cedric Price (CP) was engaged with and includes a reference to what CP called ‘anticipatory design’:—

“To establish a valid equation between contemporary aspirations and architecture it is essential to add to the latter doubt, delight and change as design criteria. Architecture is slow and therefore anticipatory design is required.”

* Cedric Price (1996) ‘Anticipating the unexpected’, Architects’ Journal, 5 September

Thus this article by Norman Fellows takes the 1996 quote as a starting point in order to enable others to match their orderings against an [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Anticipatory_Design anticipatory design], namely, ‘Archiblog’s Ordering’.

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The short-life house as a national service

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== 2018 - [https://edukit.wordpress.com/ Edukit] ==

World Educational System

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Think Links, CAMCOX, UK
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== Conclusions ==

This article affirms its premises and concludes that continuous anticipatory design is required.
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* [https://domestikit.wordpress.com/outline/22/ Domestikit]
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* Oxbridge Community College
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== References ==

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* Fellows, N. (2018) 'Edukit: World Educational System' [1]

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--[[User:Archiblog|Archiblog]] 13:52, 8 Jan 2023 (BST)

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* [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Anticipatory_Design Anticipatory Design]
* [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Archiblog%27s_Ordering Archiblog's Ordering]
* [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Architecture:_Doubt,_Delight,_and_Change Architecture: Doubt, Delight, and Change]
* ARCHITECTURE: Redefining it as progressing
* [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/ATOM:_A_generating_system_designed_by_Cedric_Price ATOM: A generating system designed by Cedric Price]
* [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Beeching_cuts:_The_railway_network_in_Nottinghamshire Beeching cuts: The railway network in Nottinghamshire]
* [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Bucky%27s_Ordering Bucky's Ordering]
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* Cedric Price Interview
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* Disaster Planning: Notts
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* [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/EDUKIT:_World_Educational_System EDUKIT: World Educational System]
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* [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Generator Generator]
* Geographic Information Systems: QGIS
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* HOUSING IN THE UK: Further ongoing research
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Archiblog's Ordering

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• Double page spread introducing 'Edukit: World Educational System' in AD by Norman Fellows Archiblog [1]

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‘Designing Buildings’ features an article entitled ‘[https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Anticipatory_Design Anticipatory Design]‘ by Norman Fellows under the pseudonym of “Archiblog”. The author’s website dovetails his office jobs with those Cedric Price (CP) was engaged with and includes a reference to what CP called ‘anticipatory design’:—

“To establish a valid equation between contemporary aspirations and architecture it is essential to add to the latter doubt, delight and change as design criteria. Architecture is slow and therefore anticipatory design is required.”

* Cedric Price (1996) ‘Anticipating the unexpected’, Architects’ Journal, 5 September

Thus this article by Norman Fellows takes the 1996 quote as a starting point in order to enable others to match their orderings against an [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Anticipatory_Design anticipatory design], namely, ‘Archiblog’s Ordering’.

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AD, Archiblog: mock-up for scrapbook cover - left blank
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[[File:Item_13831_w.jpg|link=File:Item_13831_w.jpg]]

Norman Fellows at the St John's College exhibition, called 'Cedric Price: Outside the Box', on December 23, 2014.

Photograph: Patricia Fellows
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== 2017 - [https://dukeriesthinkbelt.wordpress.com/ Dukeries Thinkbelt] ==

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== Conclusions ==

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== References ==

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* Fellows, N. (2018) 'Edukit: World Educational System' [1]

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--[[User:Archiblog|Archiblog]] 13:52, 8 Jan 2023 (BST)

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* Cedric Price Interview
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* EDUKIT: UK
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Figure 1. Post-PTb Spiral (working drawing). 
Current construction state of the polar-grid and spiral framework used to map the author’s post-PTb projects. Shown as an active work-in-progress and updated iteratively as the thesis develops.

= Is architecture progressing? =

At a time of housing crisis, infrastructural inequality, and accelerating social change, the profession must confront a difficult question: is architecture genuinely progressing in ways that matter?

The article ARCHITECTURE: Redefining it as progressing proposes that architecture can no longer be understood simply as the production of buildings and completed forms. Instead, it asks whether the discipline is advancing the social, spatial, and institutional conditions through which collective life may improve.

The accompanying post-PTb Spiral is presented as a working analytical diagram through which projects, systems and developmental phases may be mapped. Rather than a fixed chronology, it proposes architecture as an evolving field of relationships, thresholds and expanding scales of intervention.

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Archiblog: Figure 1. Post-PTb Spiral (working drawing). Current construction state of the polar-grid and spiral framework used to map the author’s post-PTb projects. Shown as an active work-in-progress and updated iteratively as the thesis develops.

Figure 1. Post-PTb Spiral (working drawing). Current construction state of the polar-grid and spiral framework used to map the author’s post-PTb projects. Shown as an active work-in-progress and updated iteratively as the thesis develops.

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Figure 1. Post-PTb Spiral (working drawing). 
Current construction state of the polar-grid and spiral framework used to map the author’s post-PTb projects. Shown as an active work-in-progress and updated iteratively as the thesis develops.

= Is architecture progressing? =

At a time of housing crisis, infrastructural inequality, and accelerating social change, the profession must confront a difficult question: is architecture genuinely progressing in ways that matter?

The article ARCHITECTURE: Redefining it as progressing proposes that architecture can no longer be understood simply as the production of buildings and completed forms. Instead, it asks whether the discipline is advancing the social, spatial, and institutional conditions through which collective life may improve.

The accompanying post-PTb Spiral is presented as a working analytical diagram through which projects, systems and developmental phases may be mapped. Rather than a fixed chronology, it proposes architecture as an evolving field of relationships, thresholds and expanding scales of intervention.

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