If the community has formed a collective vision that identifies naturally required generic centers, then these generic centers might induce, from within the culture, a natural pressure towards the creation of hulls.

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• The formation of centers is guided by generic patterns which play the role of genes.claim0.799
  Analogy to biology, placing pattern languages as the genetic code for living built environments.
• A system of hulls of public space will inevitably be created by the unfolding of a living process, if it is truly living and truly allowed to unfold.claim0.790
  The inevitability of hulls as the outcome of living process.
• A living process only rarely creates living centers from scratch; it must use pre-established generic centers — patterns — encoding successful adaptationsclaim0.785
  Grounded in Holland's schemata theory and the biological gene analogy
• When the fundamental process is working properly, the hulls will turn out to be made of pieces of space, each piece a place where it is pleasant to be.hypothesis0.780
  Predicted morphological outcome of the fundamental process.
• All six of the illustrated projects help to form hulls of public space by strengthening their centeredness.claim0.775
  Claim that each example contributes to the spatial hulls described in chapter 3.
• Only a deliberate process of creating being-like centers in built structure throughout the world encourages the world to become more alive.claim0.774
  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.
• We identified the centers by getting so deeply into the situation that we could feel, in our own bodies, just which ones needed to be there.quote0.774
  Methodological distillation of the Peru empathic immersion technique
• A realization of our own multiscale, nested architecture naturally leads to the conclusion that care needs to be extended to all sentient beings.claim0.773
  Extends ethical concern based on the collective nature of selves.