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claim:pure-piecemeal-growth-just-does-not-work-well-enough-to-create-the-structure-of-the-larger-wholeness-needed-in-a-city

Pure piecemeal growth just does not work well enough to create the structure of the larger wholeness needed in a city.

Rejection of purely unplanned organic growth for achieving large-scale urban order.

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

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Piecemeal growth requires that certain parts of the system remain stable.claim0.837
Justification for the backplane as a stable core while applications can change.
Piecemeal modification of society along simple lines will not be powerful enough to work because the life-destroying process is too massive and thoroughly organized.hypothesis0.794
Predicts that gradual improvement of individual processes cannot overcome the systemic resistance of the whole.
Morphogenesis guarantees that coherent wholes will form even while the piecemeal process allows each place to be unique.claim0.783
Key property of morphogenetic process: it produces both unity and diversity simultaneously.
In modern human society, building actions are not guaranteed to be wholeness preserving because they are governed by mental images and schemata.claim0.764
Central premise of the chapter.
If construction is organized around creating complete wholes by integrated teams, the building will achieve more life than with fragmented trades.hypothesis0.759
Testable prediction from the integrated wholes argument.
In nature the principle of unfolding wholeness creates living structure nearly all the time. Human designers, who are not constrained by this unfolding, can violate the wholeness if they wish to, and can therefore create non-living structure as often as they choose.quote0.759
Encapsulates the distinction between natural and human-made order, central to Alexander's critique of contemporary architecture.
The structure of wholeness, the more you encounter it, makes you more and more able to feel the reality and existence of the Ground.claim0.757
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.claim0.755
Conditional assertion that local deregulation enables living process.