The very idea of city planning and master plans is inherently at odds with the idea of gradual unfolding from the land.

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• 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.claim0.792
  Sweeping indictment of current production systems.
• "Systems do not necessarily require master plans in order for development to begin. With the proper meta-constructs in place, their development can proceed in an almost 'organic' fashion."concept0.781
  Core assertion that piecemeal growth with meta-constructs removes the need for upfront complete plans.
• 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.claim0.777
  Conclusion that piecemeal growth alone is insufficient; a guiding plan is necessary.
• The forms of these buildings do not allow such an unfolding to occur; they patently do not.claim0.774
  Critique of Renzo Piano's and Daniel Libeskind's buildings as incapable of unfolding.
• It is more important to get the rooms right, one by one, than it is to have a coherent 'plan'.claim0.774
  A design principle that rejects plan-driven layout.
• Systems do not necessarily require master plans in order for development to begin; with proper meta-constructs, development can proceed in organic fashion.claim0.773
  Core thesis that architectural flexibility through meta-constructs enables incremental development without complete upfront design.
• In typical apartment buildings, the plan is treated as fixed and not subject to correction, preventing sensible adaptation and resulting in unloved spaces.claim0.772
  Critique of apartment design process.
• Under the spell of modernist concepts, planners and officials became confused about the real wholeness, could no longer see it, and thus failed to act in structure-preserving ways.claim0.770
  Psychological effect of modernist ideology.