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concept:deep-sustainability-wholeness-baseddeep sustainability (wholeness‑based)
Alexander's alternative conception where sustainability springs from wholeness, beauty, and morphogenesis.
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- Wholenesssubtype_ofAlexander's core concept rejecting the idea that a whole consists of parts; instead, a whole makes its parts (called 'centers').
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- The written transcript of Christopher Alexander's 2004 Schumacher lecture.
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- Alexander's proposed alternative: sustainability rooted in beauty, adaptation, spiritual connection to land, and iterative morphogenesis rather than technical optimization alone.
- Asserts the ontological reality of wholeness as a physical/mathematical structure.
- Assertion that wholeness is a tangible spatial structure.
- Posits that wholeness provides an objective foundation for aesthetics.
- The radical conclusion that objective value is inherent in nature, not merely a human projection.
- The idea that wholeness goes beyond structural order, becoming a single, melted unity that connects us directly with the ground (the I), experienced as inner light.
- Promised for Book 4, chapter 4 (Note 15).