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What kind of better process might both protect buildings against fire and guarantee them light and air, and also protect the living character of house, and garden, and street?

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Such a process will not—in general—create living structure.
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To treat the gardens as positive — more positive, even, than the buildings themselves — that is the first step.claim0.803
The inversion of typical priority: garden space should be shaped as strongly as (or stronger than) buildings.
It is, ultimately, the process, not the design, which gives life to a building.claim0.798
Emphasizes process over blueprint.
This is a more living process. The result is likely to be more humane, better for the neighborhood.claim0.793
If a building is made by a process that allows fine adaptation through feedback, it will have life; if built from fixed drawings, it will not.hypothesis0.792
Predictive conditional summarizing the chapter's argument.
What is the difference between those buildings generated by living process (unfolding and structure-preserving transformations) compared with those buildings created wilfully by arbitrary design moves?question0.791
Second motivating question for the appendix.
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.hypothesis0.791
Prediction about the incompatibility of modern processes with life.
A truly dynamic structure-preserving process generates layouts in which every single bit of space becomes a living center — streets, lots, gardens, courtyards, housesclaim0.779
Core claim about the morphological output of the fundamental process applied to neighborhood design.
To learn how to create living structure in buildings, we had better start by looking at nature.quote0.778
Alexander's programmatic statement linking his natural philosophy to his architectural agenda