What are the common features of the examples that have most life?

The operational question that guided the extraction of the fifteen properties from thousands of comparisons

Neighborhood — ranked by edge-count

framework

Fifteen Properties of Living Structure
answered_by
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.

chapter

Chapter 5: Fifteen Fundamental Properties
introduces
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

cosine ≥ 0.65 · no typed edge

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

Can we find any structural features which tend to be present in the examples which have more life, and tend to be missing in the ones which have less life?question0.827
The research question that drove the twenty-year empirical study and resulted in the fifteen properties
Which one has more life?question0.782
The central empirical question Alexander repeatedly asked himself during twenty years of observation, and which he invites readers to ask when comparing any two artifacts or buildings
All examples of deep life, across different times and places, look the same in their deep structural quality.claim0.779
A key claim that the life quality is universal and recognizable.
Possibly the most basic and necessary feature of any living process is the fact that it goes gradually.claim0.755
Core thesis of the chapter: gradual, step-by-step progression is the bedrock of life.
How can we decide if our selection of examples is complete?question0.751
Central question motivating attribute exploration.
Every part of the world that has life, and every part of every part, becomes unique.claim0.744
Core assertion that living structure is characterized by total uniqueness of parts.
criterion of lifeconcept0.740
The standard derived from Book I for judging whether a structure or process is living; now claimed to be publicly sharable.
Centers themselves have life.claim0.739
One of the four key ideas, asserting that individual centers possess a degree of life.