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finding:the-common-1970s-1980s-us-practice-of-placing-motels-and-apartment-buildings-over-at-grade-parking-was-the-cheapest-option-but-caused-serious-damage-to-the-living-structure-of-the-pedestrian-world-and-community-fabric

The common 1970s–1980s US practice of placing motels and apartment buildings over at-grade parking was the cheapest option but caused serious damage to the living structure of the pedestrian world and community fabric

Concrete example of a profit-oriented pattern damaging wholeness

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Traditional patterns generated living structure because they were based on fitness of the whole; 20th-century profit-oriented patterns damaged living structure because they optimized for profit, not wholeness
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Contrast drawn to motivate the need for a new generation of life-supporting patterns

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A condominium set over a parking lot in Pasadena destroys neighborhood centers for several hundred feet, while other designs with front gardens can preserve the wholeness.claim0.756
Pasadena example.
In typical apartment buildings, the plan is treated as fixed and not subject to correction, preventing sensible adaptation and resulting in unloved spaces.claim0.742
Critique of apartment design process.
Modern forms of high-density housing have unnecessarily gone in a direction which is inhumane, inefficient, expensive, and unpleasant.claim0.731
Critical diagnosis of the status quo.
After 1900, a variety of modern building processes came into use that are not structure-preserving—some accidentally structure-destroying, others actively promoting ugliness for profit.claim0.729
Historical shift.
The building got a level of service and design care, not only beyond what was paid for, but, in this instance, far beyond the ordinary. It was a new kind of service, not yet known today!quote0.724
Alexander's summary of the level of care provided on the Julian Street Inn, from the construction memo.
In modern architecture, neither design nor construction typically works step by step; instead there is a fixed end-state produced without realistic feedback.claim0.721
Contrast between living process and current architectural practice.
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.claim0.720
Summary of the Mary Rose Museum and Frankfurt housing cases, asserting that inappropriate sequences damage building quality.
This is a more living process. The result is likely to be more humane, better for the neighborhood.claim0.717