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How is this to happen? What kinds of center-creating steps can have such an impact that is both piecemeal and yet also helping to repair and enhance the whole at each step forward?

Central driving question of the chapter, motivating the exposition of the fundamental process.

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Fundamental process
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The core iterative procedure that creates living structure; the engine of living process

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At each step, doing the simplest thing that can be done to intensify existing centers will produce living structure.hypothesis0.827
Operational hypothesis equating simplicity of step with emergence of life.
At every step, the process does its utmost to enhance the structure of the whole, and shapes its parts to make this enhancement happen.claim0.795
Central normative statement of the living process; defines the correct unfolding.
Centers within a whole intensify each other, resulting in a profound and lively whole.claim0.793
Alexander's core mechanism explaining how the Fifteen Properties function to create living wholes.
The key lesson in all this is simple and extreme. The field of centers cannot be created as a by-product of some existing process.quote0.789
Emphasizes that creating living structure requires dedicated focus.
Each step in a living process enhances the whole.claim0.785
Core thesis of the chapter: all action in a living process aims at increasing the beauty, life, and coherence of the whole.
Only a deliberate process of creating being-like centers in built structure throughout the world encourages the world to become more alive.claim0.784
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.
How, in a living process, do we take the first steps of design so that a beautiful, coherent whole begins to take shape?question0.783
Transition to the problem of design process.
Even a simple doorstep can only be made into a living center by standing inside the wholeness of the place and adapting it step by step in the actual situation.claim0.782
The smallest architectural act requires in-situ dynamic adaptation.