Each one of the 4000 million rooms could and should be a living center.

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

• Many good rooms will have minor centers of a similar kind, supporting the main center and placed near windows or focal points.claim0.778
  The role of subsidiary centers.
• Now, each living center has life to the extent that it is linked to other living centers (see Book 1 / INTRODUCTION chapter 4).quote0.778
  Direct statement linking center-interdependence to the concept of life, foundational for the network argument.
• The centers which bring life to a room are larger features which lie beyond the boundary of the room.claim0.777
  A key insight about position and context.
• The living room will work well, only when it is so shaped that the centers (core resting place, window place, etc.) are really strong and have life in themselves.claim0.776
  Practical design rule: comfort arises from the geometry of strong centers.
• Every living center may be distinguished as living, to the degree that it is a picture of the eternal self.claim0.773
  Central proposition from Book 1 that grounds the beings model.
• The public space needs to be made usable, every fifty feet a useful and beautiful place to be, and actually to be the living room of your society.claim0.771
  Prescribes a spatial rhythm for public space to fulfill its social function
• Each living center has life to the extent it is linked to other centers; likewise, sequences generating living centers are interdependent.claim0.765
  Establishes the necessity of the network of sequences.
• The vital centers which govern the life of a room are nearly invisible pieces of space which exist as centers, yet have no clear boundaries.claim0.762
  Describes the subtlety of room centers.