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Images In The 20th Century Had A Unique Power Where Image Became Divorced From Reality, And Often More Important Than Reality. Buildings Were Judged More By The Way They Looked In Magazines Than By The Satisfaction People Felt When Using Them.

The Specific Patterns, Out Of Which A Building Or A Town Is Made May Be Alive Or Dead. To The Extent They Are Alive, They Let Our Inner Forces Loose, And, Set Us Free; But When They Are Dead They Keep Us Locked In Inner Conflict.

One Begins To Think With That New Building Block, Rather Than With Littler Pieces. And Finally, The Things Which Seem Like Elements Dissolve, And Leave A Fabric Of Relationships Behind, Which Is The Stuff That Actually Repeats Itself, And Gives The Structure To A Building Or A Town.

There Is A Myth, Sometimes Widespread, That A Person Need Only Do Inner Work...that A Man Is Entirely Responsible For His Own Problems; And That To Cure Himself, He Need Only Change Himself....the Fact Is, A Person Is So Formed By His Surroundings, That His State Of Harmony Depends Entirely On His Harmony With His Surroundings.

But In Practice Master Plans Fail - Because They Create Totalitarian Order, Not Organic Order. They Are Too Rigid; They Cannot Easily Adapt To The Natural And Unpredictable Changes That Inevitably Arise In The Life Of A Community.