A world built according to the present technical sustainability paradigm would be quite a horrible place.

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• The current technical view of sustainability is very one‑sided.claim0.793
  Alexander argues that focusing only on technical fixes ignores the deeper dimensions of wholeness and beauty.
• When environments are built by morphogenesis they will of their own accord become sustainable.claim0.769
  First key empirical proposition of the lecture: morphogenetic processes inherently produce sustainable outcomes without explicit technical mandates.
• We will never be able to contribute to the world's horrible buildings if we make things that we like.claim0.764
  A strong corollary: true liking is incompatible with creating ugly, lifeless buildings.
• It is possible for us to build a world in which people are emotionally free, fully themselves, and alive, as demonstrated by contemporary projects.claim0.759
  Optimism based on Mexicali, Eishin, and Whidbey Island.
• A world constructed in the most personal and individual fashion, made by people following their true I, will be — in the most public, objective, universal sense — functional, adequate, and harmonious.claim0.759
  Alexander's paradoxical conclusion that the most personally authentic making produces the most universally livable world.
• The environment built since the 1950s is ugly and lifeless because Cartesian measurement excludes the measurement of life.claim0.748
  A causal explanation for the failure of modern architecture.
• 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.hypothesis0.745
  Prediction about the incompatibility of modern processes with life.
• Any part of the world we build will have life if it is created by structure-preserving transformations, and will not have life if it is not created by structure-preserving transformations.claim0.745
  The central thesis of the chapter.