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.

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• Our new or revised living processes were too 'large' to be widely copied because they required too much change and were indivisible.claim0.804
  Diagnosis of why Alexander's earlier full-process experiments did not spread despite success.
• Piecemeal growth requires that certain parts of the system remain stable.claim0.804
  Justification for the backplane as a stable core while applications can change.
• The issue is not whether the process will produce living structure if done faithfully — it will — but whether the maker has the stamina and will to keep rejecting versions that lack life.claim0.803
  Alexander's claim that the limiting factor in creating living structure is not method but the maker's persistence.
• Rules are wrongly formulated and processes are too rigid to allow adaptation; they cannot allow life to occur.claim0.795
  General statement that current rules and processes are fundamentally incompatible with living structure.
• Pure piecemeal growth just does not work well enough to create the structure of the larger wholeness needed in a city.claim0.794
  Rejection of purely unplanned organic growth for achieving large-scale urban order.
• The modern process of development has all but destroyed our capacity to create living structure in the world.claim0.794
  Alexander's conclusion that the profit-driven, remote development model is fundamentally anti-life.
• The processes needed to create life were damaged in the 20th century.claim0.792
  Explains why profound life is less common in modern buildings.
• "It is this substance which permits — OR DOES NOT PERMIT — the emergence of living centers in the material, and the adaptation of fine structure that is needed to bring the larger whole to life."quote0.792
  Alexander's foundational assertion connecting material substance directly to living structure.