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Global Structure

The large-scale organizational pattern of a system whose preservation defines wholeness-preserving transformations

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  • Penrose's claim that assembling quasicrystals requires examining the state of the pattern many atoms away, implying that global structure guides local assembly

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    A hierarchical branching structure with single-parent nodes, which Alexander rejected for urban design.
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