Modern cities flood their citizens with too many lifestyles, value systems, and ways of doing things. The citizen of a modern city consequently is a “grey” mix of all these values, therefore “weak” in character because they haven’t had the space or resources to develop their own strong character under all these expectations.
Alexander’s solution is for the modern city to include very specific and delineated subcultures, but provide the citizen with the ability to move between all of them to choose the one that suits them best.
This relates to Plot Twisters because identity building is a