Piecemeal growth requires that certain parts of the system remain stable.

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• We want to build systems which can be enhanced and modified in a piecemeal fashion. This is necessary because the requirements for systems inevitably change, sometimes even before they are deployed for the very first time.quote0.840
  Opening statement of the GARDEN OF APPLICATIONS pattern, articulating the core force.
• Pure piecemeal growth just does not work well enough to create the structure of the larger wholeness needed in a city.claim0.837
  Rejection of purely unplanned organic growth for achieving large-scale urban order.
• Piecemeal Growthconcept0.814
  Development philosophy enabling systems to evolve incrementally in response to changing requirements without requiring complete master plans.
• Morphogenesis guarantees that coherent wholes will form even while the piecemeal process allows each place to be unique.claim0.813
  Key property of morphogenetic process: it produces both unity and diversity simultaneously.
• Piecemeal modification of society along simple lines will not be powerful enough to work because the life-destroying process is too massive and thoroughly organized.hypothesis0.804
  Predicts that gradual improvement of individual processes cannot overcome the systemic resistance of the whole.
• The issue is not whether the process will produce living structure if done faithfully — it will — but whether the maker has the stamina and will to keep rejecting versions that lack life.claim0.784
  Alexander's claim that the limiting factor in creating living structure is not method but the maker's persistence.
• Any system that persists must minimise surprisal, thereby gathering evidence for its own generative model.quote0.784
  Opening sentence defining self-evidencing.
• Under a living process, as unfolding proceeds, the relative areas of these four components need to remain almost equal.claim0.780
  Invariant that living process maintains percentage balance.