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What starts as a latent center with potential becomes, under the fundamental process, a more developed complex center that includes a window and the space it creates.

Describes the transformation of latent centers.

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Chapter 13: How Living Process Generates The Character Of Rooms
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This chapter describes how living process unfolds to create rooms with life, covering position, main centers, fine structure, and tranquility.

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Space becomes more deeply functional and well-organized as it begins to resemble more deeply the human person; life in a center means the space begins to resemble the human selfclaim0.819
Extraordinary structural claim: functional organization converges on resemblance to the human self
The effect of the fundamental process is that the site and volume become intertwined, since centers in the mass and centers in the space are developing together.claim0.807
This intertwining is the result of structure-preserving transformations.
When we follow the fundamental process, we try to make, at each step, a real living center.claim0.806
Operational description of the fundamental process's intent.
At each step, doing the simplest thing that can be done to intensify existing centers will produce living structure.hypothesis0.803
Operational hypothesis equating simplicity of step with emergence of life.
The field of centers cannot be created as a by-product of some existing process; it comes about only when the entire process is organized and concentrated on creating a living field.claim0.800
Focus on anything else yields something else.
Only a deliberate process of creating being-like centers in built structure throughout the world encourages the world to become more alive.claim0.797
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.
Centers are labile foci of wholeness, not things, and are ideally suited to enhance and enlarge the whole while being fused into it.claim0.795
Definitional claim about the nature of centers and their role in unfolding.
Centers within a whole intensify each other, resulting in a profound and lively whole.claim0.794
Alexander's core mechanism explaining how the Fifteen Properties function to create living wholes.