Each step in a living process enhances the whole.

Core thesis of the chapter: all action in a living process aims at increasing the beauty, life, and coherence of the whole.

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The whole
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The overarching coherence and unity that must be enhanced at every step; the target of all living process.

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In the ship painting, the wholeness generated the details; details were created only to recreate the living wholeness and its light.
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Description of the author's painting process as a microcosm of a living process.
The painting became realistic not by mechanical copying but because it was generated from the real life of the wholeness.
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Key claim about the source of realism in art.

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Chapter 9: **The Whole
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This chapter argues that every step in a living process must enhance the whole, using examples from drawing, zoning, St. Mark's Square, canyon design, and painting.

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In a living process, every step is done in such a way as to increase the beauty—the life—of the whole.quote0.912
Encapsulates the chapter's main message.
At every step, the process does its utmost to enhance the structure of the whole, and shapes its parts to make this enhancement happen.claim0.876
Central normative statement of the living process; defines the correct unfolding.
Every living process must necessarily be an adaptive, step-by-step process that creates unity by adapting the structure into harmony with what exists.claim0.863
In a living design process, every step must be concerned with the whole and must make the feeling of the whole more profound.claim0.853
Restatement of the central principle in the context of the Claremont Canyon example.
In any living process, the next step which is most structure-enhancing is that step which most intensifies the feeling of the emerging whole.claim0.849
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.claim0.837
Definition of the essential mechanism of living structure formation.
Every living process is, throughout its length and breadth, congruent with feeling and governed by feeling.claim0.830
Essential feature of living process, making phenomenological experience the central criterion for evaluation.
The living structure emerges, slowly, step by step, and as the process goes forward step by step there is continuous feedback which allows the process to guide the system towards greater wholeness, and coherence, and adaptation.quote0.825
Concise definition of the core dynamic of living process.