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If the snippet works well, it may be adopted and spread to new construction methods, even in the context of different attitudes.

Conditional prediction about the self-propagation of small effective sequences.

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Small, independent, context-free process sequences that can be inserted individually into mainstream systems and spread through evolution.

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Contrast between living process and current architectural practice.
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Alexander's programmatic hypothesis framing the 21st-century construction research agenda.
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Feedback as the essential companion to step-by-step work.
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A predictive statement encapsulating the confidence of living process.
In good architecture and good city-building, step-by-step adaptation was historically always present as a necessary core.claim0.769
Historical claim that all successful building environments used stepwise adaptation.
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.hypothesis0.769
Predictive conditional summarizing the chapter's argument.
Under these conditions, what is done next always has a natural and comfortable relation to what existed before: it has a similar structure and never violates the previously existing structure.claim0.767
Characteristic of a structure-preserving process.
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