Is the unfolded world the kind of world which could sustain such life?

Alexander poses this rhetorical question to prompt the reader to consider whether a world created by living processes can support the blissful normal state.

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Chapter 2: How Living Processes Establish Our Belonging To The World
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In this chapter, Alexander describes belonging, its dependence on living processes and structure, and provides photographic and painted examples of the blissful state in ordinary life.

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Even a street becomes a living room in an unfolded world.claim0.789
Radical transformation of the street from traffic channel to public living room.
It is possible for us to build a world in which people are emotionally free, fully themselves, and alive, as demonstrated by contemporary projects.claim0.771
Optimism based on Mexicali, Eishin, and Whidbey Island.
A true living world will arise only if its processes are morphogenetic.claim0.763
Core thesis that living structure in the world requires processes that repeatedly apply the fifteen transformations.
When environments are built by morphogenesis they will of their own accord become sustainable.claim0.752
First key empirical proposition of the lecture: morphogenetic processes inherently produce sustainable outcomes without explicit technical mandates.
If the evolution of the natural world follows a step-by-step process in which each step is structure-preserving, then the fifteen properties will appear more and more often, and the degree of life in the wholeness will increase steadily.hypothesis0.747
Conditional statement linking smooth unfolding to the progressive emergence of the fifteen properties and increased life.
Any part of the world we build will have life if it is created by structure-preserving transformations, and will not have life if it is not created by structure-preserving transformations.claim0.747
The central thesis of the chapter.
If processes are in use which have these attributes, then we may have the real possibility of a living world.hypothesis0.746
Conditional statement linking the adoption of morphogenetic processes to the emergence of a living world.
When architectural structure is an unfolded one — created by repeated application of living processes — then what comes from it is a world where people are able to feel happy, free, and themselves.claim0.743
Main thesis linking living structure to human happiness.