Modern urban development depends on images to attract investors and buyers, making the financial core consistent with image-driven ideology and adverse to organic harmony.

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• The image-conscious high-style architecture served as justification for mass-produced commercial buildings that also lacked unfolding due to industrial procedures.claim0.756
  Connection between high style and mass production.
• In the 20th century, images became divorced from reality; photographs of buildings in magazines became more important than the actual buildings themselves.claim0.753
  Role of media images.
• The great majority of modern buildings are awkward assemblies of unrelated components, lacking the coherence necessary to be living designs.claim0.744
  Aesthetic judgment on modern buildings.
• In modern human society, building actions are not guaranteed to be wholeness preserving because they are governed by mental images and schemata.claim0.740
  Central premise of the chapter.
• The modern world we build, because its construction is driven by our attitudes about money, production, design, building, and planning, breaks from smooth unfolding at almost every stage.claim0.738
  Critique of contemporary building processes.
• In modern architecture, neither design nor construction typically works step by step; instead there is a fixed end-state produced without realistic feedback.claim0.737
  Contrast between living process and current architectural practice.
• Often the conceptual picture a person has of a place is an invented convention at odds with the wholeness that exists, and it is even difficult for modern people to see the wholeness.claim0.734
  Epistemological/phenomenological claim about perception.
• The images created by famous architects (Le Corbusier, Mies, etc.) formed an accepted style that embodied defects of the production system and became targets for younger architects.claim0.732
  Image propagation in architectural culture.