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Strong centers occur throughout the physical world, from splashing drops to galaxies, with many processes radiating from central nodes.

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Chapter 6: The Fifteen Properties In Nature
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This chapter argues that the fifteen properties appear ubiquitously in natural systems, supporting the thesis that living structure is a fundamental property of nature, not just artifacts.

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In buildings, especially, the success of the process will be judged by the extent to which these middle-range entities appear with their own distinct symmetries, with their own definite and distinct force as strong centers.claim0.822
Proposes middle-range entity quality as the criterion for judging the success of a building process
Centers become most intense when the centers they are made of help each other.claim0.817
The condition for maximum life in a center.
Centers within a whole intensify each other, resulting in a profound and lively whole.claim0.816
Alexander's core mechanism explaining how the Fifteen Properties function to create living wholes.
Every strong center is made of many other strong centers—a multiplicity of centers at different levels which engages us; the concept is recursive, not referring to one grand centerclaim0.815
Recursive definition of strong centers: they are composed of and supported by other strong centers at multiple scales
The smallest centers play a key role in the intensity of medium-sized centers, which then establish the intensity of the largest ones.claim0.800
Hierarchy of centers determines overall life.
Good shape arises in many natural systems such as leaves, bones, and Chladni patterns, where a strong center is intensified by minor centers.claim0.800
Centers are above all, labile, they are foci of wholeness, they are not things, but regions, qualities, focal points of centeredness.quote0.796
Key definition capturing the non-atomic, relational nature of centers as fields rather than objects.
Certain configurations of centers have such organizing force that they create entirely new levels of intensity within the centers themselves and utterly transmute the material character of space.hypothesis0.793
Suggests that sufficiently intense fields of centers transcend ordinary matter.