A pattern language will work well only to the extent that it embraces a whole — comprising everything needed for a complete building of that type — so that its patterns work together as a coherent system

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

• A well-constructed pattern language has the fifteen properties embedded within it, giving it a driving force that makes geometrical wholeness more easily visible and attainableclaim0.854
  Connecting pattern language theory to the fifteen properties framework as its geometric substrate
• A true collective pattern language will almost always contain the fifteen properties as transformations, and they will be implicit in the geometry of the patternsclaim0.828
  Connection between the deep structure of the vision and the fifteen properties of living structure
• A pattern language is a work of poetry and art, potentially as profound in its way as a building can beclaim0.822
  Alexander's characterization of the deep nature of pattern languages in section 13
• Pattern Language represents a rearrangement of the political power in the design and building process.claim0.820
• The mere list of centers in a pattern language, just from their naming, already conveys a profound atmosphere and defines the life of the place to an enormous degreeclaim0.819
  Demonstrated via the Samarkand pattern language list which immediately evokes magical atmosphere
• The Pattern Language is a game that regulates the interaction between man and environment and its complexity lies in the interface of the generative rules coded in the patterns with the specific circumstances of its application.claim0.815
  Interpretation of Alexander’s later work as a rule-based game that requires contextual improvisation, though limited to pre-defined patterns.
• Though the pattern language was created by the architect from people's words, it is theirs — they recognize it as their own collective visionclaim0.808
  Describes the appropriate role of the architect as scribe, not author of the collective vision
• The 253 patterns in A Pattern Language describe conflicting systems of forces and show configurations that eliminate stress cycles and release positive forces.claim0.801
  Functional interpretation of patterns.