But this isn’t what I meant when I said that I don’t know which processes should be put in place. The reason is that we can choose processes for their effects, and we may like one effect but not another, and really that choice is a matter of preference from one person to another. If I were to tell you what processes to run, I would really just be making an appeal to my personal tastes.

The observation that one place is placeful and the other placeless is the result of applying the theory, and personal intuition. We know how a subdivision is made, and we know how a shantytown is made, and we can feel that something is wrong with the subdivision but not with the other. If we combine the theory with our knowledge of how the subdivision and the shantytown were made, we arrive at those conclusions.

Or, let’s approach it differently, you posted two pcitures: placeless and placeful. On what is that observation based? Do you beleive we ahve ANY idea about how to obtain a placeful urbanity?

Try to conceive of all the resources that were invested to create the software processes you used to write your post. This much will have to be invested in urbanisation R&D before we can have the same confidence generating cities we do posting to blogs.