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claim:at-every-step-the-process-does-its-utmost-to-enhance-the-structure-of-the-whole-and-shapes-its-parts-to-make-this-enhancement-happen

At every step, the process does its utmost to enhance the structure of the whole, and shapes its parts to make this enhancement happen.

Central normative statement of the living process; defines the correct unfolding.

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To achieve living structure, one must prune and re-arrange until every single part, every part of every part, and every part between parts are all living centers.
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Maxim for the demanding effort of genuinely center-based design.

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Power station placement in Austrian Alps
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An imagined example of placing a power station to increase the life of the whole valley by locating it in the ugliest, most damaged place and using the budget to heal the land.

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Each step in a living process enhances the whole.claim0.876
Core thesis of the chapter: all action in a living process aims at increasing the beauty, life, and coherence of the whole.
In a living process, every step is done in such a way as to increase the beauty—the life—of the whole.quote0.855
Encapsulates the chapter's main message.
In any living process, the next step which is most structure-enhancing is that step which most intensifies the feeling of the emerging whole.claim0.851
Every living process must necessarily be an adaptive, step-by-step process that creates unity by adapting the structure into harmony with what exists.claim0.828
In a living design process, every step must be concerned with the whole and must make the feeling of the whole more profound.claim0.825
Restatement of the central principle in the context of the Claremont Canyon example.
The core of all living process is step-by-step adaptation — the modification and evolution which happen gradually in response to information about the degree to which the emerging structure supports the whole.claim0.825
Definition of the essential mechanism of living structure formation.
How, in practice, can a person keep paying attention to the whole; how can one achieve successful differentiation and structure-enhancing transformations at every step?question0.822
How can a structure-preserving process both preserve and enhance the whole? How can these two apparently different ideas be reconciled?question0.818
Central theoretical puzzle that latent centers resolve.