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framework:development-process-five-step-sequenceDevelopment Process (Five-Step Sequence)
The modern model for creating buildings: find land with profit potential, architect plans, bank approves, permit issued, contractor builds. Driven by remote speculative investment.
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- The recipe: find land for profit, architect plans, bank approves, permit, contractor builds. Embodies the development model.
- Investment where the primary and often sole motive is monetary return, remote from the actual site and unconcerned with living structure.
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- Alexander's conclusion that the profit-driven, remote development model is fundamentally anti-life.
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- Argues that the standard sequence locks out the possibility of responsive, local decision-making.
- Temporally extended process coordinating plastic expression of components to produce a collective phenotype, e.g., differentiation in multicellular bodies
- The idea that living structure emerges only through a sequence of small, structure-preserving moves, not by a single grand blueprint.
- Practitioner's question about sequence in a living process.
- An iterated design process: 1) observe current configuration, 2) identify latent centers, 3) decide where to build to strengthen a latent center, 4) construct, take the whole to a new plateau.
- Represented by boxes in process theory; transformations that take systems as inputs/outputs
- Definition of the essential mechanism of living structure formation.