What can we do to transform and rejuvenate these neighborhoods?

Practical question seeking actionable processes.

Neighborhood — ranked by edge-count

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Chapter 9: The Way That Living Processes Can Guide The Reconstruction Of An Urban Neighborhood
introduces
The working unit that describes the four-fold pattern process for transforming blighted neighborhoods into living structures.

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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.claim0.785
Conditional assertion that local deregulation enables living process.
How can dynamic neighborhood development be done — in practice — at the scale of a city or neighborhood?question0.754
The motivating question that leads Alexander to present the Guasare process as an answer.
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.hypothesis0.750
The overarching conditional that local process freedom leads to urban restoration.
To bring life to the neighborhood, it is essential that it can be a place where people live and work.claim0.738
Asserts the necessity of mixed-use for urban vitality.
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 spotshypothesis0.736
Alexander's proposal for institutionalizing the diagnosis-feedback-repair loop at city scale.
we shape our buildings; and they shape us.quote0.735
Attributed to Winston Churchill, cited as common sense about environment-behavior.
How can we try to make a living system out of a region, or a city, or a building—even out of a garden—when, according to current scientific orthodoxy, these things are not living systems?question0.722
Rhetorical question highlighting the intellectual obstacle the book must overcome.
OUR NEIGHBORHOOD MUST BE FIT FOR INSECTS. IT IS THE INSECTS WHICH ARE IMPORTANT. WE WANT A WORLD IN WHICH OUR INSECTS ARE PRESERVED.quote0.719
Slogan from the Chikusadai community, expressing their core value of preserving life.