Even when there are only two steps to be taken, the order in which they are done may be all-important.

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• How do you determine these steps which must be taken, and their sequence?question0.816
  Practitioner's question about sequence in a living process.
• You just take one thing at a time, and do it in the right order. That's all there is to it.quote0.813
  The architecture student's realization after Alexander guided him step by step; a succinct summary of the entire chapter's message.
• Under these conditions, what is done next always has a natural and comfortable relation to what existed before: it has a similar structure and never violates the previously existing structure.claim0.807
  Characteristic of a structure-preserving process.
• The steps of a living process always take place in a vitally important sequence, and coherence depends largely on the accuracy of this unfolding sequence.claim0.806
  Highlights that order of center formation is not arbitrary; the sequence from larger to smaller wholes is critical.
• When the process is correct, the creation of life follows almost automatically, without effort.claim0.805
• In a living design process, every step must be concerned with the whole and must make the feeling of the whole more profound.claim0.793
  Restatement of the central principle in the context of the Claremont Canyon example.
• Partial Order of Stepsconcept0.791
  Mathematical representation of precedence relations among steps: which centers must be in position before another can be formed, defining good sequences as linearizations that minimize backtracking.
• These step-by-step processes are very simple, virtually unhampered by concepts or by too much thought about the intricacy of design.claim0.790
  The commonality underlying all the examples of living process.