To make each garden a center and each house a center, lots must be composed of two sub-centers (house area + garden area), producing irregular zig-zag lots — not simple rectangles as in conventional subdivisions

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

• Seats, fences, and other centers, placed in the landscape to connect the garden with the buildings, will form a continuity of structure between inside and outside.claim0.805
  The function of garden structures as connectors that erase the boundary.
• Repeated use of the fundamental process will typically generate irregular streets following contours, polygonal lots, long-narrow houses adjusted to lot lines, positively-shaped gardens, and overall lot designs composed of separate adjacent portionsclaim0.783
  Alexander's enumeration of the predictable morphological outcomes of the dynamic process across scales.
• It is the configuration as a whole that produces the local centers and allows them to 'settle out'.claim0.778
  Core dynamic: local centers are generated by the global structure, not assembled from parts.
• At each step, doing the simplest thing that can be done to intensify existing centers will produce living structure.hypothesis0.776
  Operational hypothesis equating simplicity of step with emergence of life.
• The more centers are packed and overlapped, each helping and intensifying the others, the more an object comes to life.claim0.775
  The formula for profound life, as seen in the Temple of Hera.
• Centers within a whole intensify each other, resulting in a profound and lively whole.claim0.775
  Alexander's core mechanism explaining how the Fifteen Properties function to create living wholes.
• To achieve living structure, one must prune and re-arrange until every single part, every part of every part, and every part between parts are all living centers.claim0.771
  Maxim for the demanding effort of genuinely center-based design.
• Good shape is built up from the simplest elementary figures; what seem like complex centers are made of simpler centers which are also alive, and these simpler centers give the complex ones their lifeclaim0.770
  Claim that even apparently organic or floral designs derive their life from geometrically simple components (triangles, rhombuses, hexagons) that allow complex cross-relationships