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• Often the conceptual picture a person has of a place is an invented convention at odds with the wholeness that exists, and it is even difficult for modern people to see the wholeness.claim0.778
  Epistemological/phenomenological claim about perception.
• The gist of the process, what I call the formal or brutal process, lies in the use of very simple geometry, first introduced with force, after one makes sure that the inspiration has arisen from the place, and from the introduction, then, of just enough syncopation into the order, so that it truly fits the necessities of site and place and time, without doing violence to them.claim0.776
  Summarizes the brutal process as force-first geometry, then syncopated adaptation to fit context without violence
• 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.hypothesis0.774
  Extends the brutal geometry thesis beyond architecture into all creative and social domains; acknowledged as not yet confirmed with certainty
• An unfolding process, if faithfully applied, will dissolve any arbitrary initial image because reality and common sense will override it.claim0.772
  Key principle about images vs. unfolding.
• The combination of these transformations, taken together, slowly creates public space that is coherent.claim0.772
  Summary of the combined effect of the four element processes.
• Only a deliberate process of creating being-like centers in built structure throughout the world encourages the world to become more alive.claim0.768
  Proposition 4 of the Mid-Book Appendix; the normative and practical conclusion tying individual search for the true self to the creation of a living world.
• The essence of the process is that it generates coherent, yet quite unpredictable structure, simply by applying a few simple rules to a piece of land and its natural idiosyncracies.quote0.768
  Alexander's distillation of why the dynamic process produces living results that top-down design cannot.
• 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.claim0.767
  Psychological effect of modernist ideology.