Understaffed planning departments forced to follow rigid rules were strongly biased toward large-scale projects because they reduced workload, leading to destruction of urban fabric.

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• Compartmentalization and refusal to allow processes to unfold in the right order had negative impact on the shape, form, cost, and life of major buildings.claim0.776
  Summary of the Mary Rose Museum and Frankfurt housing cases, asserting that inappropriate sequences damage building quality.
• 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.claim0.767
  Sweeping indictment of current production systems.
• The 20th-century passion for rigidity came, in part, from Frederick Taylor's scientific management, which deliberately destroyed craft knowledge and separated conception from execution.claim0.753
  Historical attribution that Taylorism is a root cause of modern bureaucratic rigidity and the loss of adaptive processes.
• Rules are wrongly formulated and processes are too rigid to allow adaptation; they cannot allow life to occur.claim0.752
  General statement that current rules and processes are fundamentally incompatible with living structure.
• Big buildings overwhelm us not because of size but because the LEVELS OF SCALE are missing; in nature, they always preserve scale in relation to us.claim0.751
  Interpretation that the absence of hierarchical scaling is the reason modern buildings feel inhuman.
• The setback regulation in the Lighty house would have destroyed the living space around the great oak tree, illustrating how rigid rules damage wholeness.claim0.751
  Specific example used as evidence that standard zoning rules are insensitive to local wholes.
• The makers of image-ridden, ugly buildings did not truly please themselves; they acted out of wilfulness and a desire to conform.claim0.750
  Alexander argues that what appears to be self-pleasing in modern architecture is actually wilfulness and professional image-management.
• "most environments that do not work…such as schools, playgrounds, hospitals, day-care centres, international airports, art galleries and museums, do not do so because they do not meet the 'loose parts' requirement"concept0.747
  Nicholson's defining statement of the problem: institutional environments fail because they lack manipulable elements.