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claim:the-denial-of-this-view-is-the-chief-way-20th-century-development-destroyed-the-surface-of-the-earthThe denial of this view is the chief way 20th-century development destroyed the surface of the Earth.
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- Explains why profound life is less common in modern buildings.
- Alexander's conclusion that the profit-driven, remote development model is fundamentally anti-life.
- Sweeping indictment of current production systems.
- Blames modern education and design culture for losing the ability to generate living environments.
- Critique of modern worldview's blindness to objective life.
- Core critique that the motive of profit via leveraged capital necessarily precludes the adaptations needed for life.
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- Alexander's summary of his forty-year experience that acting for wholeness inevitably brought him into conflict with existing processes.