Living structure is at once structural and personal, uniting objective and subjective and potentially bridging the bifurcation of nature described by Whitehead.

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• The structure we know as living structure is just that kind of structure which has unfolded smoothly and naturally, arising step by step from what exists, preserving the structure of what exists.claim0.872
  Defines living structure as the product of a truthful unfolding process that respects and preserves existing wholeness.
• Living structure might even be defined as 'that which pleases us'—that which truly pleases us.claim0.857
  A proposed operational definition of living structure in terms of genuine pleasure.
• Living structure may be identified empirically by the extent to which it is a picture of one's self.claim0.851
  Alexander claims there is an empirical method for identifying living structure via reference to the universal entity within each person.
• The existence of living structure, as defined in The Nature of Order, requires modifications in our physical picture of the world, not only in the picture we have of architecture.claim0.842
  The closing claim of the chapter's mid-book appendix, asserting that the theory of centers has implications for physics.
• Nature always produces living structure because it follows a process of unfolding wholeness; human designers can create non-living structure by violating this process.claim0.840
  Core distinction between natural and designed configurations, explaining why properties are ubiquitous in nature but rare in bad design.
• Living structure is that which remains behind from a continuous striving for the simple, and from the removal of dross.claim0.840
  Pithy definition of living structure as the residuum of simplicity-seeking.
• Living structure will always rely on its connection to the same ground which underlay traditional forms of mysticism.claim0.834
  A metaphysical assertion that the ground of all things is a necessary, permanent condition for creating living structure.
• A structure is truly generated, and perceived as having life, only when it has unfolded from a nice, beautiful sequence of differentiations.claim0.832
  The most profound claim of the chapter: the niceness of the sequence is directly perceptible in the built form and is the ultimate source of living quality.