The Pulborough housing developments are a simulacrum of the real thing, almost worthless because not the product of real adaptation.

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• A building can have real life only when the building details have life and are adapted, in their fine structure, to the life of the building.claim0.753
  Life at larger scales depends on life at the fine scale.
• Most of the possible building configurations are dead ones; they do not have life.claim0.738
• The slum in Bangkok has real life, while a pretentious postmodern house is a deathly thing.claim0.732
  Sharp contrast to illustrate that life can exist amid poverty and be absent amid wealth and style.
• No building has real life unless it is deeply and robustly functional.claim0.720
  Opening assertion setting the stage for unified ornament-function.
• Buildings made with an eye to the past will most often fail to have living structure, because the process of historical reproduction somehow turns vivid, living structure sour.claim0.718
  Argues that copying historical forms does not produce living structure.
• If a building is made by a process that allows fine adaptation through feedback, it will have life; if built from fixed drawings, it will not.hypothesis0.718
  Predictive conditional summarizing the chapter's argument.
• Modern forms of high-density housing have unnecessarily gone in a direction which is inhumane, inefficient, expensive, and unpleasant.claim0.717
  Critical diagnosis of the status quo.
• In typical apartment buildings, the plan is treated as fixed and not subject to correction, preventing sensible adaptation and resulting in unloved spaces.claim0.715
  Critique of apartment design process.