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"Belonging comes about directly as a result of living process. That is simply because all living process does two things. It pays attention to the centers which exist, and creates new centers, which enhance them and embellish them."

A concise formulation of the causal link between living process and belonging.

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Chapter 2: How Living Processes Establish Our Belonging To The World
introduces
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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Belonging cannot, in my view, be created by non-living process.claim0.885
Central assertion that only living processes generate the emotional reality of belonging
Living processes are absolutely necessary in buildings and in towns and in the countryside simply to create belonging, true belonging.claim0.851
Extends the necessity of living process to all scales of human environment
True belonging — true life — occurs when a penetration of the real into the fabric of the world occurs.claim0.839
Defines the fundamental mechanism through which authentic connection to place happens
Living process respects the uniqueness of every place and the particularity of the people there, making the environment lovable and establishing belonging.claim0.836
Synthesis of how adaptation in living process creates emotional attachment.
The core of a living process is that it comes from people, from their inner desires—and genuinely does so; that it meets their archetypal core, and thereby makes them feel at home.claim0.825
Foundational assertion about user-centered origin of living structure.
The process by which a person comes in touch with wholeness is linked to human growth, self-knowledge, and discovery of the true self.claim0.822
The capacity for everyone to enter either one from anywhere — to have both belong-to worlds to hand — is the essence of the structure that living processes will generate in society.claim0.820
Defines the ultimate spatial outcome of living process: simultaneous access to private sanctuary and public communion
Life comes directly from the wholeness; the degree of life arises from the way centers in the wholeness cohere to form a unity.claim0.820
The fundamental thesis of the book: life is an emergent property of the structure of centers.