The Nature of Order: An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe, Book One, The Phenomenon of Life

ByC. Alexander

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Understanding Christopher Alexander's Fifteen Properties via Visualization and Analysis
Correspondence analysis applied to Alexander's own dependency table (from *The Nature of Order, Book One*, p. 238) reveals that the 15 fundamental properties of wholeness cluster into 4 or 5 coherent