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To sustain living process in a large project, about 50 decisions per day must be made in an atmosphere of concern for living detail within an emerging whole, shared by 200 workers.

Quantified management requirement for implementing living process at scale.

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How can each of them put something of themselves into the building? And how can they together put their deep feeling into the building, so that it comes to life as one whole?
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Question about organizing craftsmen in a large project to achieve collective living structure.

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Chapter 4: How Differently A Living Process Generates Large Public Buildings
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The working unit chapter that presents Alexander's method for generating large public buildings through living process, illustrated by six major projects.

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In a living design process, every step must be concerned with the whole and must make the feeling of the whole more profound.claim0.802
Restatement of the central principle in the context of the Claremont Canyon example.
Living processes are necessarily generative: large precedes small, and the whole creates the conditions for the part.claim0.796
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.claim0.793
Alexander's claim that the limiting factor in creating living structure is not method but the maker's persistence.
Every living process must necessarily be an adaptive, step-by-step process that creates unity by adapting the structure into harmony with what exists.claim0.786
Under a living process, as unfolding proceeds, the relative areas of these four components need to remain almost equal.claim0.785
Invariant that living process maintains percentage balance.
Every living process is, throughout its length and breadth, congruent with feeling and governed by feeling.claim0.782
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.quote0.781
Concise definition of the core dynamic of living process.
If design and construction processes are living processes, each part will become itself, adapted to local conditions and individual people.claim0.780
Core assertion that living process translates unique place and person into unique form.