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.

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• Life and living structure will appear in the world inevitably because the mathematical way space gives rise to structure necessarily reinforces wholeness as part of its most normal evolution.claim0.818
  Alexander's strongest ontological claim: living structure is not probabilistically improbable but mathematically necessary given the principle of unfolding wholeness
• Buildings made with an eye to the past will most often fail to have living structure, because the process of historical reproduction somehow turns vivid, living structure sour.claim0.812
  Argues that copying historical forms does not produce living structure.
• In nature the principle of unfolding wholeness creates living structure nearly all the time. Human designers, who are not constrained by this unfolding, can violate the wholeness if they wish to, and can therefore create non-living structure as often as they choose.quote0.811
  Encapsulates the distinction between natural and human-made order, central to Alexander's critique of contemporary architecture.
• In order to make buildings by unfolding, it is necessary to pay attention to the wholeness in the world. This 'paying attention to the wholeness' is essentially synonymous with love of life.claim0.808
  Connection between process, perception, and love.
• The processes needed to create life were damaged in the 20th century.claim0.808
  Explains why profound life is less common in modern buildings.
• "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."quote0.807
  A concise formulation of the causal link between living process and belonging.
• The question of life threatens modern architecture because its examples have less life.claim0.807
  Interpretation of student discomfort as defense of contemporary architectural norms.
• In order to make buildings by unfolding - hence by structure-preserving transformations - it is necessary, truly, to pay attention to the wholeness in the world. This 'paying attention to the wholeness' is essentially synonymous with love of life.quote0.806
  Connection between process, attention, and love.