The comfort of places like Rome comes not from age but because they are simply better, being living structures that are better adapted.

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• The more austere forms of buildings also arise from the wholeness that comes from buildings that are near rectangular, to make positive space.claim0.758
• The places shown are living structures because they have this character (coherence, roughness, humanity).claim0.745
  The selection criterion for the examples: their life resides precisely in their special character.
• Even the hovels of the Middle Ages had life and direct contact with the heart, more than modern plastic tract houses.claim0.740
  Controversial claim that poverty does not preclude life; in fact modern comfort often lacks it.
• I believe that these properties arise because they are the principal ways in which centers can be strengthened by other centers.quote0.734
  The central insight of the chapter: the fifteen properties all reduce to ways centers help each other
• The Nolli plan of Rome shows a completely different kind of structure, generated by adaptation, which is better and more comfortable than modern planning.claim0.733
  Historic urban fabric is evidence of a morphogenetic process that modern architecture cannot replicate through design.
• The absence of life we recognize as a familiar problem of the past century comes about because the processes which create objects, artifacts, buildings, neighborhoods, agriculture, forests, towns, roads, bridges - nearly all fail to have the character of unfolding wholeness.claim0.732
  Diagnosis of modern lifelessness.
• It is only when engineering and architecture work together from the very first day that deep feeling or life can be attained in a building.claim0.730
  Assertion about the necessity of early engineering integration for living quality.
• 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.claim0.729
  Central interpretive claim of the chapter, asserting that living structure is an effortless natural outcome of structure-preserving transformations.