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claim:the-characteristic-which-most-makes-the-community-work-in-human-terms-is-the-presence-of-the-beady-ring-structure-and-the-density-of-these-beady-ring-structures

The characteristic which most makes the community work, in human terms, is the presence of the beady-ring structure and the density of these beady-ring structures.

Interpretation of Hillier and Hanson's finding, asserting that social function is spatial center-configuration.

Neighborhood — ranked by edge-count

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Density of beady-ring structures correlates with higher human communication quality in Hillier & Hanson's study of village G.
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Empirical finding from The Social Logic of Space showing that beady-ring structures are a key variable for community cohesion.

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

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.claim0.773
Proposes middle-range entity quality as the criterion for judging the success of a building process
The rewarding and life-enhancing nature of work comes into focus when the thing made has life, and the makers begin to change dramatically.claim0.769
What makes collectives individuals is their intelligence – their degree of competency in solving novel problems.claim0.769
Equates individuality with problem-solving ability.
The structure which is created by a feeling for centers and by a conscious and deliberate aim towards the feeling of the whole, will often turn out to be an efficient structure.claim0.760
Reiterated empirical observation from twenty years of practice.
The wholesomeness and integrity of a person's existence is directly dependent on the extent to which that person can sustain an inner relatedness with the world, which itself depends on the extent of living structure.hypothesis0.760
Promised for Book 4, chapter 4 (Note 15).
The profound wholeness of living structure, almost every time it has been done most profoundly, has been done in a mystical‑religious context.claim0.753
A sweeping historical observation that grounds the claim that mystical context is a near‑universal condition for the highest living structure.
It is the material substance of walls, floors, steps, windows, and roof — and the configuration of how they are made — which governs whether living centers can emerge and fine structure adaptation can occurclaim0.752
Alexander's foundational claim linking material technique directly to the possibility of living architecture.
The ultimate criterion for whether something works in nature and in buildings depends on the extent to which it resembles the healthy human selfclaim0.749
Summarizes the post-Cartesian revolution in a single succinct criterion