A center is needed at the head of the canyon, some intense building like a jewel, forming a two-center system with the canyon itself to strengthen the whole.

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• The more centers are packed and overlapped, each helping and intensifying the others, the more an object comes to life.claim0.790
  The formula for profound life, as seen in the Temple of Hera.
• Centers within a whole intensify each other, resulting in a profound and lively whole.claim0.780
  Alexander's core mechanism explaining how the Fifteen Properties function to create living wholes.
• Centers become most intense when the centers they are made of help each other.claim0.777
  The condition for maximum life in a center.
• To make each garden a center and each house a center, lots must be composed of two sub-centers (house area + garden area), producing irregular zig-zag lots — not simple rectangles as in conventional subdivisionsclaim0.768
  Alexander's claim that center-generating requirements force unconventional lot geometry.
• Centers are labile foci of wholeness, not things, and are ideally suited to enhance and enlarge the whole while being fused into it.claim0.768
  Definitional claim about the nature of centers and their role in unfolding.
• A thing which has the field of centers always does make a person near it feel more whole.claim0.767
• Each building element in a living structure must itself be a powerful center - a living structure in itself.claim0.765
  Elements must have life individually to contribute to the whole.
• The centers which bring life to a room are larger features which lie beyond the boundary of the room.claim0.765
  A key insight about position and context.