Buildings and objects with living structure enlarge our capacity for relatedness; those without deaden it, even in nature.

Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

• Non-living structures damage our ability to feel relatedness and can make us insane.claim0.875
  The harm of the modern built environment.
• Life and living structure will appear in the world inevitably because the mathematical way space gives rise to structure necessarily reinforces wholeness as part of its most normal evolution.claim0.842
  Alexander's strongest ontological claim: living structure is not probabilistically improbable but mathematically necessary given the principle of unfolding wholeness
• Living structure is enormously susceptible to minor changes, and accuracy of detail is necessary for success.claim0.839
  Warning that the recursion of centers requires extreme precision.
• The kind of order that occurs in living structure has a complexity not usually describable by drawings or by architectural images.claim0.835
  Emphasizes the non-pictorial, process-dependent nature of living order.
• The creation of living structure cannot be done in any other way.claim0.834
• Living structure might even be defined as 'that which pleases us'—that which truly pleases us.claim0.832
  A proposed operational definition of living structure in terms of genuine pleasure.
• Living structure in buildings can only be GENERATED. It cannot be created by brute force from designs.claim0.832
  Core thesis of Book 2, stated at the transition to Part Two.
• Unless we have a form language which supports the necessities of living structure, then living structure is simply out of our reach.quote0.831
  Emphasizes the necessity of a form language for achieving living structure.