For step-by-step adaptation to be effective, there must be built-in feedback that checks each step immediately for its increase of life, accepted if it has it, rejected if not.

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• To get a fully adapted world, the same step-by-step principle must be extended to cover all scales, even things a million times bigger than a doorstep.claim0.852
  Scalability claim: the principle applies to the largest constructions.
• In good architecture and good city-building, step-by-step adaptation was historically always present as a necessary core.claim0.827
  Historical claim that all successful building environments used stepwise adaptation.
• 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.claim0.824
  Definition of the essential mechanism of living structure formation.
• Every living process must necessarily be an adaptive, step-by-step process that creates unity by adapting the structure into harmony with what exists.claim0.823
• step‑by‑step adaptationconcept0.815
  The incremental unfolding characteristic of morphogenesis, where each step arises from the previous state.
• 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.quote0.814
  Concise definition of the core dynamic of living process.
• If a building is made by a process that allows fine adaptation through feedback, it will have life; if built from fixed drawings, it will not.hypothesis0.798
  Predictive conditional summarizing the chapter's argument.
• The step-by-step evolution of living centers, in a progressive differentiating process, is a biological necessity — an essential part of the adaptation of a complex system.claim0.795
  Claims that unfolding is not a stylistic choice but a biological requirement for adaptive buildings.