Four-step cycle (context, latent centers, possible action, new construction)

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.

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Latent Centers
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Configurational entities existing implicitly in a structure; guide perception and generation of next morphogenetic step; exemplified in St Mark's square cycles.

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Chapter 9: **The Whole
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This chapter argues that every step in a living process must enhance the whole, using examples from drawing, zoning, St. Mark's Square, canyon design, and painting.

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At each step, doing the simplest thing that can be done to intensify existing centers will produce living structure.hypothesis0.784
Operational hypothesis equating simplicity of step with emergence of life.
What starts as a latent center with potential becomes, under the fundamental process, a more developed complex center that includes a window and the space it creates.claim0.782
Describes the transformation of latent centers.
Development Process (Five-Step Sequence)framework0.779
The modern model for creating buildings: find land with profit potential, architect plans, bank approves, permit issued, contractor builds. Driven by remote speculative investment.
Only a deliberate process of creating being-like centers in built structure throughout the world encourages the world to become more alive.claim0.770
Proposition 4 of the Mid-Book Appendix; the normative and practical conclusion tying individual search for the true self to the creation of a living world.
Five-step development sequenceconcept0.767
The recipe: find land for profit, architect plans, bank approves, permit, contractor builds. Embodies the development model.
In good architecture and good city-building, step-by-step adaptation was historically always present as a necessary core.claim0.760
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.claim0.757
Definition of the essential mechanism of living structure formation.
Every living process must necessarily be an adaptive, step-by-step process that creates unity by adapting the structure into harmony with what exists.claim0.756