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The industrial process of the early 20th century was an unfolding process in its straightforward directness, creating I-like centers.

Explanation for why early industrial landscapes had life, in contrast to post-industrial image-driven processes.

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The step-by-step process through which coherent geometric order emerges from a whole, preserving structure at each step; the fundamental dynamic of all living processes

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The architecture of the past century served the inherently machine-like production process that is incapable of creating life.claim0.779
General historical verdict.
The processes needed to create life were damaged in the 20th century.claim0.777
Explains why profound life is less common in modern buildings.
The fragmentation of modern industrial process makes it difficult to pay attention to the whole, but a society based on feeling is an attainable ideal.claim0.773
Only a deliberate process of creating being-like centers in built structure throughout the world encourages the world to become more alive.claim0.771
Proposition 4 of the Mid-Book Appendix; the normative and practical conclusion tying individual search for the true self to the creation of a living world.
What we get from such a process is a system of centers which is elaborated by other centers, in which each center is connected upward, downward, and sideways to myriad other centers, in which the centers bolster and intensify one another. What we get, then, is a particular kind of structure in which all the centers—gradually—take on this encrusted, dense, structured character of being made of other centers.claim0.771
Description of the resulting living structure.
The process of unfolding and the fundamental process follow from this pleasing of oneself, as night follows day.claim0.763
Alexander claims Book 2's unfolding process is a consequence of people learning to please themselves.
The entire living process is oriented by the simplicity transformation, and is pruned steadily to move towards beautiful simplicity.claim0.763
Identifies the fifteenth transformation as the overarching aesthetic guide that shapes the process outcome.
The gist of the process, what I call the formal or brutal process, lies in the use of very simple geometry, first introduced with force, after one makes sure that the inspiration has arisen from the place, and from the introduction, then, of just enough syncopation into the order, so that it truly fits the necessities of site and place and time, without doing violence to them.claim0.761
Summarizes the brutal process as force-first geometry, then syncopated adaptation to fit context without violence