If every neighborhood maintained an ongoing, updated diagnosis on a computer, all future acts and capital expenditure could be continuously guided toward improvement of bad spots and enhancement of better spots

Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

• "You know, even if somebody has a kind of patch, a bit of concrete in the front of their house, if it's a little scratchy bit of concrete that they did, it may not be perfect, but they know it, they love it, there's the paw print of the cat in it. It doesn't matter that it isn't perfect. What matters is that it has been done by somebody one Saturday afternoon and we see the trace of that imperfect person there."quote0.756
  Vernacular testimony illustrating how personal making creates belonging through visible imperfection
• At each step, doing the simplest thing that can be done to intensify existing centers will produce living structure.hypothesis0.753
  Operational hypothesis equating simplicity of step with emergence of life.
• Neighborhoods and cities can be restored to life... if we can break free locally from the death grip of conventions and rules that block the smooth, natural, step-by-step processes.claim0.751
  Conditional assertion that local deregulation enables living process.
• The presence of living centers is thereby reduced. That, in turn, damages the connective fabric of the neighborhood.claim0.750
• Under these conditions, what is done next always has a natural and comfortable relation to what existed before: it has a similar structure and never violates the previously existing structure.claim0.744
  Characteristic of a structure-preserving process.
• If we can break free locally from the death grip of conventions and rules that block the smooth, natural, step-by-step processes, neighborhoods and cities can be restored to life.hypothesis0.743
  The overarching conditional that local process freedom leads to urban restoration.
• Repeated use of the fundamental process will typically generate irregular streets following contours, polygonal lots, long-narrow houses adjusted to lot lines, positively-shaped gardens, and overall lot designs composed of separate adjacent portionsclaim0.743
  Alexander's enumeration of the predictable morphological outcomes of the dynamic process across scales.
• The newly created centers work best, if they are based on something, some trace, that is there already.claim0.741
  The principle of preserving and intensifying existing centers, key to the fundamental process.