Belonging, although invariably common in traditional towns and villages, is missing in far too much of modern society.

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• "Belonging comes about directly as a result of living process. That is simply because all living process does two things. It pays attention to the centers which exist, and creates new centers, which enhance them and embellish them."quote0.785
  A concise formulation of the causal link between living process and belonging.
• The private or individual space which is created by money, in today's society, is rarely making or fostering belonging.claim0.781
  Distinguishes wealth-driven uniqueness from the true uniqueness born of living process
• True belonging — true life — occurs when a penetration of the real into the fabric of the world occurs.claim0.776
  Defines the fundamental mechanism through which authentic connection to place happens
• Belonging cannot, in my view, be created by non-living process.claim0.776
  Central assertion that only living processes generate the emotional reality of belonging
• Belonging (public and private)concept0.766
  The twin needs for communal public space and individually expressive private territory, addressed by the four-fold pattern.
• Living processes are absolutely necessary in buildings and in towns and in the countryside simply to create belonging, true belonging.claim0.765
  Extends the necessity of living process to all scales of human environment
• Loss of belonging in the 20th centuryconcept0.760
  The emotional misery and disconnection caused by modern urban development processes that eliminate personal uniqueness and public ownership
• The existence of this fact is missing from our general way of understanding the world, and modern society has been built on conceptions at odds with it.claim0.757
  Critique of modern worldview's blindness to objective life.