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"The world around us requires a special looseness to allow normal human life to run in its normal state."

A key claim that the environment must have a specific kind of looseness (living structure) to support ordinary human happiness.

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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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The life which seems best in our world comes from efforts that are uncensored, natural and straightforward, from impulses close to our emotions and joy.claim0.793
Alexander's opening assertion about the character of true modern life.
Something truly relaxed, truly made for human comfort, truly arising from an egoless and unencumbered wish to make things right, and nothing more.quote0.787
Final lines describing the ultimate ordinariness and authenticity of living architecture.
Rules, laws, restrictions, are too exact, too restrictive to create living space; a shared vision is needed instead.claim0.780
Argument that abstract codes cannot guarantee the emergence of shaped space with deep feeling.
The wholesomeness and integrity of a person's existence is directly dependent on the extent to which that person can sustain an inner relatedness with the world, which itself depends on the extent of living structure.hypothesis0.778
Promised for Book 4, chapter 4 (Note 15).
What we call 'life' is a general condition which exists, to some degree or other, in every part of space: brick, stone, grass, river, painting, building, daffodil, human being, forest, city.quote0.772
Verbatim statement of the fundamental hypothesis, defining the scope of life.
"It is this substance which permits — OR DOES NOT PERMIT — the emergence of living centers in the material, and the adaptation of fine structure that is needed to bring the larger whole to life."quote0.771
Alexander's foundational assertion connecting material substance directly to living structure.
A person will feel healed, made whole, during any process in which life and living structure are created in the world.claim0.769
It is only when surrounded, all around, by such living structure that we begin to feel ourselves whole.quote0.766
Summation of the human effect of interlocking positive space and mass within a building.