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Things have happened, having to do with many things including political correctness, where people are so worried about being politically correct that they are unable to function.

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Christopher Alexander

Everyone is aware that most of the built environment today lacks a natural order, an order which presents itself very strongly in places that were built centuries ago

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Most of the wonderful places in the world were not made by architects but by the people.

People, World, Wonderful

There is a myth, sometimes widespread, that a person need only do inner work. . . that a man is entirely responsible for his own problems; and that to cure himself, he need only change himself. . . . The fact is, a person is so formed by his surroundings, that his state of harmony depends entirely on his harmony with his surroundings.

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In short, no pattern is an isolated entity. Each pattern can exist in the world only to the extent that is supported by other patterns: the larger patterns in which it is embedded, the patterns of the same size that surround it, and the smaller patterns which are embedded in it.

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Drawings help people to work out intricate relationships between parts.

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We are searching for some kind of harmony between two intangibles: a form which we have not yet designed and a context which we cannot properly describe.

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