One of the most frightening aspects of the 20th-century city was its faceless, nameless character.

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• Faceless, nameless character of the 20th-century cityconcept0.863
  The anonymous quality of modern urban environments where individual identity is erased through uniform apartments, offices, and materials
• Cities today do not reflect the idiosyncrasies and human characters of people.claim0.719
  States that modern urbanism erases the multitude of differences that constitute our humanity
• The absence of life we recognize as a familiar problem of the past century comes about because the processes which create objects, artifacts, buildings, neighborhoods, agriculture, forests, towns, roads, bridges - nearly all fail to have the character of unfolding wholeness.claim0.711
  Diagnosis of modern lifelessness.
• The beautiful character of Manhattan is an unfolded one, to the extent that unfolding processes were at work.claim0.710
  Attributing Manhattan's life to structure-preserving unfolding processes.
• In the 20th century there were violent taboos in the architectural community against building anything from C_living.claim0.701
• The processes needed to create life were damaged in the 20th century.claim0.695
  Explains why profound life is less common in modern buildings.
• The pursuit of wholeness, pure and simple, was at odds with virtually every institutional and social reality of the 20th century.claim0.695
  Alexander's summary of his forty-year experience that acting for wholeness inevitably brought him into conflict with existing processes.
• "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."concept0.690
  Alexander, 'A City Is Not a Tree' (1965); vivid articulation of why hierarchical structures harm urban life and relationships.