The best environment for human life is one which gives people the maximum chance to be free, allowing each person to react appropriately.

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• The environment is pleasant, beautiful, humane and people can achieve a true sense of belonging and love for the places where they live.claim0.833
  Overall qualitative evaluation of the planned environment.
• The life which seems best in our world comes from efforts that are uncensored, natural and straightforward, from impulses close to our emotions and joy.claim0.793
  Alexander's opening assertion about the character of true modern life.
• The environment is good, or bad, according to the degree that its thousands and thousands of centers are pictures of the self, what we might call 'beings'.quote0.786
  The chapter's central evaluative conclusion, summarizing the beings criterion.
• The environment is good, or bad, according to the degree that its thousands of centers are pictures of the self, i.e., beings.claim0.786
  The central practical conclusion of the chapter: the being-character is the criterion for life in the environment.
• life (quality in environments)concept0.776
  The felt quality of wholeness and adaptation that makes a place truly sustainable and nourishing.
• The quality of life includes us as human beings; a place with the deepest life is one where I reach a deeper level of life inside myself.claim0.767
  Emphasizes the experiential, transformative dimension of life in built environments.
• A physical environment with living structure nourishes freedom of the spirit; lacking it, freedom can be destroyed or weakened.claim0.763
  Key claim linking living structure to inner freedom.
• If living structure impacts inner freedom, then the physical world has impact on the most precious attribute of human existence.hypothesis0.759
  Stated early in the chapter as a conditional.