The apparently strong centers in Stirling's Berlin library are actually very weak due to the four defects of cut-and-paste imagery and lack of contextual emergence.

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

• The Julian Street Inn's centers meet the four conditions lacking in the Berlin Library: strong smaller centers, non-imitative origin, emergence from wholeness, and contribution to larger centers.claim0.832
  Contrastive evaluation showing success of the living process.
• 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.claim0.764
  Proposes middle-range entity quality as the criterion for judging the success of a building process
• Alexander is the load-bearing concept across the graph; the 15 Properties paper is the native taste position for About Blank.claim0.744
• My claim in Book 2 is that the intricate and beautiful structure of living centers comes about naturally, and most of the time without effort, as a result of the repeated application of structure-preserving transformations to the wholeness which exists.quote0.744
  Central thesis statement of the chapter, encapsulating the core idea that living structure arises effortlessly from structure-preserving transformations.
• The Matisse drawing has the strongest field of centers among the three compared 20th-century artworks and correspondingly the deepest personal feelingclaim0.743
  Demonstrates the correlation between field-of-centers strength and personal feeling using three famous drawings
• The precise placement of windows can only be judged well in the real world, because subtle interactions with the wholeness cannot be captured in drawings.claim0.742
  Example that vital fine-tuning depends on in-situ perception of the actual emerging structure.
• Original photographs from the 1970s in Alexander's foundational works were lost to reproduction technology; recovery and re-scanning materially improves knowledge transmission.claim0.740
• The greater life in the animal comes from the field of centers which is created there, not from copying or 'realism'.claim0.738
  Extension of the previous claim, tying life directly to centers.