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Good Shape

The property that a good shape is a center made up of powerful intense centers which themselves have good shape; built up from elementary figures with high internal symmetries, bilateral symmetry, a well-marked center, compactness, and closure

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  • Fifteen Properties of Living Structure
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    The set of geometric properties that appear in all living structure: levels of scale, strong centers, boundaries, echoes, gradients, deep interlock and ambiguity, local symmetries, roughness, inner calm, not separateness, and others.
  • Fifteen Transformations
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    The system of fifteen specific transformation types, each corresponding to one of the fifteen properties, that together constitute all structure-preserving transformations.
  • Fifteen Properties of Living Centers
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    Alexander's structural framework for identifying living centers; referenced as analytical tool for comparing artworks

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  • Good-Shape Transformation
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    A transformation that intensifies products of alternating repetition by strengthening loosely formed shapes and giving more life to centers within them.
  • Positive Space
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    The property that every bit of space swells outward, is substantial in itself, and is never the leftover from an adjacent shape; every single part of space has positive shape as a center with no amorphous meaningless leftovers
  • Structure-Preserving Transformations
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    Chapter 2 of Volume 2 of The Nature of Order, introducing structure-preserving transformations as the mechanism by which living structure arises naturally through unfolding wholeness.
  • Living process
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    A generative process that repeatedly applies the fundamental process to create uniqueness and belonging in the environment
  • Local Symmetries
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    The property that living wholes contain many interlocking and overlapping local symmetries rather than overall symmetry; local symmetries act as glue holding space together, and their number predicts cognitive coherence

Chapters (2)

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  • Chapter 5: Fifteen Fundamental Properties
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    The chapter that catalogs and analyzes the fifteen recurrent geometric properties found in systems that have life, connecting them to the deeper theory of centers and wholeness
  • Always Making Centers
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    Chapter 10 of The Nature of Order, Vol 2, describing the process of creating living centers through differentiation and the fundamental process.

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