The structures where life occurs just cannot be made in any other way.

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• The creation of living structure cannot be done in any other way.claim0.901
• Such a process will not—in general—create living structure.claim0.869
• Any part of the world we build will have life if it is created by structure-preserving transformations, and will not have life if it is not created by structure-preserving transformations.claim0.860
  The central thesis of the chapter.
• There is nothing except the living structure of the world, and this living structure is all we need to reason with.claim0.851
  Radical assertion that function reduces to living structure, eliminating the need for external goals.
• A structure is truly generated, and perceived as having life, only when it has unfolded from a nice, beautiful sequence of differentiations.claim0.848
  The most profound claim of the chapter: the niceness of the sequence is directly perceptible in the built form and is the ultimate source of living quality.
• Life and living structure will appear in the world inevitably because the mathematical way space gives rise to structure necessarily reinforces wholeness as part of its most normal evolution.claim0.848
  Alexander's strongest ontological claim: living structure is not probabilistically improbable but mathematically necessary given the principle of unfolding wholeness
• Nature always produces living structure because it follows a process of unfolding wholeness; human designers can create non-living structure by violating this process.claim0.843
  Core distinction between natural and designed configurations, explaining why properties are ubiquitous in nature but rare in bad design.
• The kind of order that occurs in living structure has a complexity not usually describable by drawings or by architectural images.claim0.842
  Emphasizes the non-pictorial, process-dependent nature of living order.