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.

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• 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.claim0.963
  Conditional assertion that local deregulation enables living process.
• In traditional societies, building processes often preserved and extended wholeness by following natural processes closely.claim0.787
  Historical claim about traditional versus modern building.
• If we were nevertheless trying to get our buildings conceived, designed, and built by the social processes which currently exist - the buildings would still inevitably break life and could not have life.hypothesis0.782
  Prediction about the incompatibility of modern processes with life.
• Piecemeal modification of society along simple lines will not be powerful enough to work because the life-destroying process is too massive and thoroughly organized.hypothesis0.781
  Predicts that gradual improvement of individual processes cannot overcome the systemic resistance of the whole.
• Rules are wrongly formulated and processes are too rigid to allow adaptation; they cannot allow life to occur.claim0.779
  General statement that current rules and processes are fundamentally incompatible with living structure.
• Rules, laws, restrictions, are too exact, too restrictive to create living space; a shared vision is needed instead.claim0.775
  Argument that abstract codes cannot guarantee the emergence of shaped space with deep feeling.
• "The city is a receptacle for life. If the receptacle severs the overlap of the strands of life within it, because it is a tree, it will be like a bowl full of razor blades on edge."concept0.771
  Alexander, 'A City Is Not a Tree' (1965); vivid articulation of why hierarchical structures harm urban life and relationships.
• In a living process, design steps and construction steps must be interleaved and entangled; the 20th-century separation does enormous violence to living structure.claim0.769
  States that the sequential separation of design and construction is incompatible with unfolding, requiring a new form of process.