The presence of living centers is thereby reduced. That, in turn, damages the connective fabric of the neighborhood.

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

• At each step, doing the simplest thing that can be done to intensify existing centers will produce living structure.hypothesis0.808
  Operational hypothesis equating simplicity of step with emergence of life.
• The creation of living centers in the world increases the I in those who have contact with it.claim0.805
• Each living center has life to the extent it is linked to other centers; likewise, sequences generating living centers are interdependent.claim0.803
  Establishes the necessity of the network of sequences.
• 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.claim0.796
  Central interpretive claim of the chapter, asserting that living structure is an effortless natural outcome of structure-preserving transformations.
• Buildings and objects with living structure enlarge our capacity for relatedness; those without deaden it, even in nature.claim0.792
  Practical consequence for architecture and urbanism.
• Now, each living center has life to the extent that it is linked to other living centers (see Book 1 / INTRODUCTION chapter 4).quote0.791
  Direct statement linking center-interdependence to the concept of life, foundational for the network argument.
• The centers which bring life to a room are larger features which lie beyond the boundary of the room.claim0.790
  A key insight about position and context.
• The quality of living centers requires the positive-ness and thus the being-ness of each part that lies between two parts.claim0.790
  Claim that the spaces between elements must themselves be living centers.