The Nolli plan of Rome shows a completely different kind of structure, generated by adaptation, which is better and more comfortable than modern planning.

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• Nolli Plan of Romeconcept0.842
  The 17th-century plan of Rome by Giambattista Nolli, used as an archetypal example of positive space where every bit of street, building mass, and public interior has definite positive shape
• Our present forms of planning, design, construction, and production are deeply flawed because they do not include step-by-step adaptation and cannot in principle do so as they are.claim0.760
  Sweeping indictment of current production systems.
• The city of Amsterdam evolved from U-shaped wall to horseshoe configuration of concentric canals, intensifying latent structure through boundaries, positive space, local symmetries, good shape, deep interlock, and alternating repetition.finding0.752
  Large-scale urban example of harmony-seeking computation where latent wholeness is progressively realized across centuries.
• In modern architecture, neither design nor construction typically works step by step; instead there is a fixed end-state produced without realistic feedback.claim0.746
  Contrast between living process and current architectural practice.
• Modern architectural design typically creates a schematic drawing containing hundreds of untested decisions, with no step-by-step testing against real life.claim0.742
  Critique of current design practice: hundreds of variables frozen at once.
• We hypothesize that a similar 'brutal' and purely geometric process always occurs somewhere in other kinds of unfolding that generate living order — in poetry, dance, social structure, planning, and family relationships.hypothesis0.741
  Extends the brutal geometry thesis beyond architecture into all creative and social domains; acknowledged as not yet confirmed with certainty
• The very idea of city planning and master plans is inherently at odds with the idea of gradual unfolding from the land.claim0.741
  Critique of planning concept.
• Instead of using plans, designs, and so on, I shall argue that we MUST instead use generative processes.claim0.739
  The central argumentative claim of Book 2, positioned against conventional design.