The development process, driven by remote speculative investment judged solely by monetary return, is inherently incapable of creating living structure.

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• The issue is not whether the process will produce living structure if done faithfully — it will — but whether the maker has the stamina and will to keep rejecting versions that lack life.claim0.808
  Alexander's claim that the limiting factor in creating living structure is not method but the maker's persistence.
• The modern process of development has all but destroyed our capacity to create living structure in the world.claim0.805
  Alexander's conclusion that the profit-driven, remote development model is fundamentally anti-life.
• The creation of living structure cannot be done in any other way.claim0.797
• The essence of the process is that it generates coherent, yet quite unpredictable structure, simply by applying a few simple rules to a piece of land and its natural idiosyncracies.quote0.790
  Alexander's distillation of why the dynamic process produces living results that top-down design cannot.
• The structures where life occurs just cannot be made in any other way.quote0.789
  Categorical assertion about the necessity of the living process.
• The physical structure of the world is generated by its processes.claim0.788
  States that the form of buildings and cities is an outcome of the processes that create them, even when unintended.
• It is inherently impossible to make a successful building by mass production or prefabrication without possibility of modification.claim0.785
  Necessary minute adaptations cannot be achieved with standardized components.
• The living process can be steered by the extent to which it has deep feeling in it.claim0.785