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The quality of living centers requires the positive-ness and thus the being-ness of each part that lies between two parts.

Claim that the spaces between elements must themselves be living centers.

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Chapter 4: How Differently A Living Process Generates Large Public Buildings
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The working unit chapter that presents Alexander's method for generating large public buildings through living process, illustrated by six major projects.

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The positive feeling comes about only when the field of living centers is actually achieved; otherwise there is frustration.claim0.843
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.claim0.814
Central interpretive claim of the chapter, asserting that living structure is an effortless natural outcome of structure-preserving transformations.
A building's life is not a matter of style but of substance: the presence of living centers.claim0.809
Distinction between superficial style and deep structure.
Each building element in a living structure must itself be a powerful center - a living structure in itself.claim0.809
Elements must have life individually to contribute to the whole.
Every living center may be distinguished as living, to the degree that it is a picture of the eternal self.claim0.807
Central proposition from Book 1 that grounds the beings model.
"There is a central quality which is the root criterion of life and spirit in a man, a town, a building, or a wilderness. This quality is objective and precise, but it cannot be named"quote0.807
Verbatim quote from Alexander (1979, p.19) defining the Quality Without a Name, used to motivate the exploration.
Only a deliberate process of creating being-like centers in built structure throughout the world encourages the world to become more alive.claim0.803
Proposition 4 of the Mid-Book Appendix; the normative and practical conclusion tying individual search for the true self to the creation of a living world.
There must be some relation between the ultimate nature of a living center and the nature of the I.hypothesis0.802
The hypothesis that the deepest aspect of centers is identical with the I-like presence.