If we don't get the proportions exactly right we don't produce the centers and the whole thing falls apart.

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• In hundreds of examples, our ability to see the field of centers and to produce the centers indicated geometrically tends to produce an object which works better.claim0.797
  Empirical generalisation from built examples, with no counterexample found.
• the center is not made from parts. Rather, it would be more true to say that most of the parts are created by the wholeness.quote0.790
  Key reversal of the Cartesian parts-to-whole assumption: the whole generates the parts.
• Centers are always made of other centers.quote0.784
  Encapsulates the recursive nature of centers, the key to understanding wholeness.
• Well-ordered ranges of sizes create a field effect that ties centers together to form a whole.claim0.777
  Explanation of how Levels of Scale property operates through emergent field phenomena.
• The formation of centers is guided by generic patterns which play the role of genes.claim0.775
  Analogy to biology, placing pattern languages as the genetic code for living built environments.
• Degree of life varies with relative configuration of surrounding centers, not absolute properties.claim0.769
• Centers become most intense when the centers they are made of help each other.claim0.769
  The condition for maximum life in a center.
• Centers within a whole intensify each other, resulting in a profound and lively whole.claim0.769
  Alexander's core mechanism explaining how the Fifteen Properties function to create living wholes.