The processes needed to create life were damaged in the 20th century.

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• The modern process of development has all but destroyed our capacity to create living structure in the world.claim0.831
  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.claim0.814
• Much of the emotional misery of the 20th century was caused by the terrible loss of belonging our contemporary processes inflicted on society.claim0.812
  Causal attribution of widespread psychological suffering to the built environment
• After 1900, a variety of modern building processes came into use that are not structure-preserving—some accidentally structure-destroying, others actively promoting ugliness for profit.claim0.810
  Historical shift.
• When the process is correct, the creation of life follows almost automatically, without effort.claim0.808
• The absence of life we recognize as a familiar problem of the past century comes about because the processes which create objects, artifacts, buildings, neighborhoods, agriculture, forests, towns, roads, bridges - nearly all fail to have the character of unfolding wholeness.claim0.808
  Diagnosis of modern lifelessness.
• The architecture of the past century served the inherently machine-like production process that is incapable of creating life.claim0.805
  General historical verdict.
• One could not call this process a life-creating process.claim0.800