Modern society, as it has been organized during the past sixty years or so, was inherently unable to create life in the environment.

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• The forms of environment we have learned to create in modern times have caused us to lose the sense of true connection to ourselves and our society.claim0.837
  Directly blames the design of modern space for severing self- and social connection
• The modern process of development has all but destroyed our capacity to create living structure in the world.claim0.821
  Alexander's conclusion that the profit-driven, remote development model is fundamentally anti-life.
• The processes needed to create life were damaged in the 20th century.claim0.814
  Explains why profound life is less common in modern buildings.
• Modern society has almost lost the ability to sustain an unfolding process like nature due to willful, rule-bound schemata out of touch with real wholeness.claim0.813
  Diagnosis of modernity.
• Modern society created an ethos where buildings are judged only by themselves, not by their enhancement of the world, leading to damage to nature and ancient towns.claim0.804
  Ethical dimension of modern architecture.
• The absence of life we recognize as a familiar problem of the past century comes about because the processes which create objects, artifacts, buildings, neighborhoods, agriculture, forests, towns, roads, bridges - nearly all fail to have the character of unfolding wholeness.claim0.795
  Diagnosis of modern lifelessness.
• 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.claim0.794
  Critique of modern worldview's blindness to objective life.
• The structures where life occurs just cannot be made in any other way.quote0.792
  Categorical assertion about the necessity of the living process.