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.

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• 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.claim0.811
  Ethical dimension of modern architecture.
• For the first time in modern history, ways of thinking are available that make the criteria for 'living' potentially sharable and actually shared.claim0.808
  Asserts that the theoretical foundation laid out in the four books provides a public quality standard for sequences.
• The modern process of development has all but destroyed our capacity to create living structure in the world.claim0.799
  Alexander's conclusion that the profit-driven, remote development model is fundamentally anti-life.
• Modern society, as it has been organized during the past sixty years or so, was inherently unable to create life in the environment.claim0.794
• Often the conceptual picture a person has of a place is an invented convention at odds with the wholeness that exists, and it is even difficult for modern people to see the wholeness.claim0.794
  Epistemological/phenomenological claim about perception.
• Although a scientific conception of universal life does not yet exist, traditional Buddhism and animistic religions treat each part of the world as having life.claim0.793
  Acknowledges precursors in non‑Western traditions.
• If the conception of life is completely general (degree of life in everything), it will be much easier to design buildings, towns, and regions that are alive.hypothesis0.793
  Pragmatic motivation for the entire book: a broader definition enables effective creation of life.
• The modern world we build, because its construction is driven by our attitudes about money, production, design, building, and planning, breaks from smooth unfolding at almost every stage.claim0.793
  Critique of contemporary building processes.