In Algiers, the French government's high-rise plan destroyed the existing wholeness and created new centers unrelated to the land, sea, or town.

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• The makers of Chartres consciously created a structure filled with beings, with millions of living centers.claim0.725
  Interpretation of Chartres Cathedral as a deliberate, being-filled construction.
• An injection of new structure into a place can either respect and enhance the existing wholeness or violate and destroy it; this is an objective structural fact, not merely aesthetic preference.claim0.716
  Alexander's assertion that judgments about whether interventions preserve wholeness are structural and mathematical rather than subjective or romantic.
• Only a deliberate process of creating being-like centers in built structure throughout the world encourages the world to become more alive.claim0.713
  Proposition 4 of the Mid-Book Appendix; the normative and practical conclusion tying individual search for the true self to the creation of a living world.
• Centers within a whole intensify each other, resulting in a profound and lively whole.claim0.712
  Alexander's core mechanism explaining how the Fifteen Properties function to create living wholes.
• The building got a level of service and design care, not only beyond what was paid for, but, in this instance, far beyond the ordinary. It was a new kind of service, not yet known today!quote0.710
  Alexander's summary of the level of care provided on the Julian Street Inn, from the construction memo.
• The key lesson in all this is simple and extreme. The field of centers cannot be created as a by-product of some existing process.quote0.710
  Emphasizes that creating living structure requires dedicated focus.
• A condominium set over a parking lot in Pasadena destroys neighborhood centers for several hundred feet, while other designs with front gardens can preserve the wholeness.claim0.710
  Pasadena example.
• The public space, created first as an offshoot from acts of individual occupancy forming private houses, quickly became a thing that many people together cared for and shaped.claim0.709
  Describes the emergent genesis of public space from private acts, not top-down planning