  Conceived and developed by Christopher Alexander through his life's work: The
Nature of Order, wholeness is defined as a mathematical structure of physical
space in our surroundings. Yet, there was no mathematics, as Alexander admitted
then, that was powerful enough to capture his notion of wholeness. Recently, a
mathematical model of wholeness, together with its topological representation,
has been developed that is capable of addressing not only why a space is good,
but also how much goodness the space has. This paper develops a structural
perspective on goodness of space - both large- and small-scale - in order to
bridge two basic concepts of space and place through the very concept of
wholeness. The wholeness provides a de facto recursive definition of goodness
of space from a holistic and organic point of view. A space is good, genuinely
and objectively, if its adjacent spaces are good, the larger space to which it
belongs is good, and what is contained in the space is also good. Eventually,
goodness of space - sustainability of space - is considered a matter of fact
rather than of opinion under the new view of space: space is neither lifeless
nor neutral, but a living structure capable of being more living or less
living, or more sustainable or less sustainable. Under the new view of space,
geography or architecture will become part of complexity science, not only for
understanding complexity, but also for making and remaking complex or living
structures. Keywords: Scaling law, head/tail breaks, living structure, beauty,
streets, cities
