Cities today do not reflect the idiosyncrasies and human characters of people.

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• Cities today are not coherent beautiful structures; a city today is more like a rambling incoherent structure loosely placed on the surface of the Earth.claim0.822
  Fundamental diagnosis of contemporary urban form.
• The public space of our present-day cities, both legally and metaphorically, no longer belongs to us to any deep extent.claim0.779
  Diagnosis of why modern citizens feel unwell in public environments
• Modern society created an ethos where buildings are judged only by themselves, not by their enhancement of the world, leading to damage to nature and ancient towns.claim0.777
  Ethical dimension of modern architecture.
• The existence of this fact is missing from our general way of understanding the world, and modern society has been built on conceptions at odds with it.claim0.775
  Critique of modern worldview's blindness to objective life.
• We need a city of public places where we can SEE these differences, where we can become engaged with the multitude of human characters.claim0.769
  Argues that public space must function as a theater for human variety
• According to present-day biological terminology, a city is not a living system.claim0.767
  A statement of current orthodoxy used to highlight the need for a broader definition.
• The judgment about life is widely shared and not idiosyncratic; it is roughly consistent from person to person.claim0.762
  Contrasts with the worry that such feelings are purely private.
• 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.claim0.759
  Conditional assertion that local deregulation enables living process.