A condominium set over a parking lot in Pasadena destroys neighborhood centers for several hundred feet, while other designs with front gardens can preserve the wholeness.

Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

• The common 1970s–1980s US practice of placing motels and apartment buildings over at-grade parking was the cheapest option but caused serious damage to the living structure of the pedestrian world and community fabricfinding0.756
  Concrete example of a profit-oriented pattern damaging wholeness
• The presence of living centers is thereby reduced. That, in turn, damages the connective fabric of the neighborhood.claim0.751
• Neighborhoods and cities can be restored to life... if we can break free locally from the death grip of conventions and rules that block the smooth, natural, step-by-step processes.claim0.733
  Conditional assertion that local deregulation enables living process.
• Seats, fences, and other centers, placed in the landscape to connect the garden with the buildings, will form a continuity of structure between inside and outside.claim0.731
  The function of garden structures as connectors that erase the boundary.
• To make each garden a center and each house a center, lots must be composed of two sub-centers (house area + garden area), producing irregular zig-zag lots — not simple rectangles as in conventional subdivisionsclaim0.731
  Alexander's claim that center-generating requirements force unconventional lot geometry.
• In any urban neighborhood, creation of public space and private space, with a proper relationship between the two, is the critical issue.claim0.728
  Key claim establishing the importance of balancing public and private realms.
• "The city is a receptacle for life. If the receptacle severs the overlap of the strands of life within it, because it is a tree, it will be like a bowl full of razor blades on edge."concept0.725
  Alexander, 'A City Is Not a Tree' (1965); vivid articulation of why hierarchical structures harm urban life and relationships.
• Repeated use of the fundamental process will typically generate irregular streets following contours, polygonal lots, long-narrow houses adjusted to lot lines, positively-shaped gardens, and overall lot designs composed of separate adjacent portionsclaim0.722
  Alexander's enumeration of the predictable morphological outcomes of the dynamic process across scales.