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After years of trying to make it work, it is after all necessary to have some kind of plan to create the large-scale order of a city.

Conclusion that piecemeal growth alone is insufficient; a guiding plan is necessary.

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Pure piecemeal growth just does not work well enough to create the structure of the larger wholeness needed in a city.
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Rejection of purely unplanned organic growth for achieving large-scale urban order.

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It is more important to get the rooms right, one by one, than it is to have a coherent 'plan'.claim0.785
A design principle that rejects plan-driven layout.
The very idea of city planning and master plans is inherently at odds with the idea of gradual unfolding from the land.claim0.777
Critique of planning concept.
Each particle of the city needs to be individual, particular.claim0.772
A moral and aesthetic imperative for city form rooted in the nature of living tissue
In order to achieve living structure, at a certain stage, it is necessary to seize hold of the building design and force it into an almost brutal, simple, massive geometric mold.claim0.768
The chapter's central thesis: brutal geometric imposition is a necessary phase in achieving living structure
The process of creating a living building requires not merely redefining functions, but rearranging and redefining the centers of function — which then opens the door to a new comfortable lifeclaim0.766
Derived from the farmhouse kitchen case study in section 9
A building has too many variables; we cannot get each aspect right unless it is possible to work out one aspect at a time, step by step.claim0.762
Direct application of the coin argument to building design and construction.
We want to build systems which can be enhanced and modified in a piecemeal fashion. This is necessary because the requirements for systems inevitably change, sometimes even before they are deployed for the very first time.quote0.759
Opening statement of the GARDEN OF APPLICATIONS pattern, articulating the core force.
Even when there are only two steps to be taken, the order in which they are done may be all-important.claim0.758
The house/garden example demonstrates that a poor sequence can violate positive space, while the reversed sequence yields wholesome results.