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claim:the-modern-process-of-development-has-all-but-destroyed-our-capacity-to-create-living-structure-in-the-worldThe modern process of development has all but destroyed our capacity to create living structure in the world.
Alexander's conclusion that the profit-driven, remote development model is fundamentally anti-life.
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- The modern model for creating buildings: find land with profit potential, architect plans, bank approves, permit issued, contractor builds. Driven by remote speculative investment.
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- Explains why profound life is less common in modern buildings.
- Prediction about the incompatibility of modern processes with life.
- Diagnosis of modernity.
- Alexander's claim that the limiting factor in creating living structure is not method but the maker's persistence.
- The need for a new kind of process in society.