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Traditional patterns generated living structure because they were based on fitness of the whole; 20th-century profit-oriented patterns damaged living structure because they optimized for profit, not wholeness

Contrast drawn to motivate the need for a new generation of life-supporting patterns

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The common 1970s–1980s US practice of placing motels and apartment buildings over at-grade parking was the cheapest option but caused serious damage to the living structure of the pedestrian world and community fabric
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Concrete example of a profit-oriented pattern damaging wholeness

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Nature always produces living structure because it follows a process of unfolding wholeness; human designers can create non-living structure by violating this process.claim0.815
Core distinction between natural and designed configurations, explaining why properties are ubiquitous in nature but rare in bad design.
Living structure will always rely on its connection to the same ground which underlay traditional forms of mysticism.claim0.811
A metaphysical assertion that the ground of all things is a necessary, permanent condition for creating living structure.
In nature the principle of unfolding wholeness creates living structure nearly all the time. Human designers, who are not constrained by this unfolding, can violate the wholeness if they wish to, and can therefore create non-living structure as often as they choose.quote0.810
Encapsulates the distinction between natural and human-made order, central to Alexander's critique of contemporary architecture.
Buildings made with an eye to the past will most often fail to have living structure, because the process of historical reproduction somehow turns vivid, living structure sour.claim0.809
Argues that copying historical forms does not produce living structure.
The creation of living structure cannot be done in any other way.claim0.805
The intricate and beautiful structure of living centers comes about naturally, and most of the time without effort, as a result of the repeated application of structure-preserving transformations to the wholeness which exists.claim0.804
Central interpretive claim of the chapter, asserting that living structure is an effortless natural outcome of structure-preserving transformations.
My claim in Book 2 is that the intricate and beautiful structure of living centers comes about naturally, and most of the time without effort, as a result of the repeated application of structure-preserving transformations to the wholeness which exists.quote0.804
Central thesis statement of the chapter, encapsulating the core idea that living structure arises effortlessly from structure-preserving transformations.
Such a process will not—in general—create living structure.claim0.801