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Twentieth-century 'filled-in' plan-based developments were often dead when built because their form did not emerge naturally from actual events in the ongoing life of the community

Alexander's diagnosis of why conventional developments lack life.

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The main problem of community development is to grow a neighborhood dynamically rather than statically, because only the dynamic process creates and maintains relatedness between parts
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Alexander's central thesis distinguishing dynamic living processes from static master planning.

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Chapter 11: How Living Processes Must Generate Necessary Further Dynamics of Any Neighborhood Which Comes to Life
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The working unit being extracted; covers dynamic neighborhood generation, structure-preserving transformations, and case studies in Colombia, Venezuela, Israel, and San Francisco.

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Most of the possible building configurations are dead ones; they do not have life.claim0.775
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.claim0.765
Sweeping indictment of current production systems.
The modern process of development has all but destroyed our capacity to create living structure in the world.claim0.763
Alexander's conclusion that the profit-driven, remote development model is fundamentally anti-life.
The great majority of modern buildings are awkward assemblies of unrelated components, lacking the coherence necessary to be living designs.claim0.758
Aesthetic judgment on modern buildings.
In modern architecture, neither design nor construction typically works step by step; instead there is a fixed end-state produced without realistic feedback.claim0.757
Contrast between living process and current architectural practice.
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.claim0.754
Argues that copying historical forms does not produce living structure.
The processes needed to create life were damaged in the 20th century.claim0.753
Explains why profound life is less common in modern buildings.
In the 20th century, images became divorced from reality; photographs of buildings in magazines became more important than the actual buildings themselves.claim0.751
Role of media images.