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.

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• 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.claim0.852
  Feedback as the essential companion to step-by-step work.
• In good architecture and good city-building, step-by-step adaptation was historically always present as a necessary core.claim0.826
  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.claim0.822
  Definition of the essential mechanism of living structure formation.
• If the evolution of the natural world follows a step-by-step process in which each step is structure-preserving, then the fifteen properties will appear more and more often, and the degree of life in the wholeness will increase steadily.hypothesis0.819
  Conditional statement linking smooth unfolding to the progressive emergence of the fifteen properties and increased life.
• Every living process must necessarily be an adaptive, step-by-step process that creates unity by adapting the structure into harmony with what exists.claim0.807
• step‑by‑step adaptationconcept0.795
  The incremental unfolding characteristic of morphogenesis, where each step arises from the previous state.
• The five-step development sequence inherently excludes adaptation to the land and people.claim0.794
  Argues that the standard sequence locks out the possibility of responsive, local decision-making.
• How then — realistically — in the modern world can we get the subtle fine detail of adaptation, variation, and harmony which makes every component slightly different, and yet do it at the break-neck speed of modern giant projects and in the colossal quantities required for the largest projects?question0.792
  The central practical question the chapter sets out to answer.