Is the way that we view design, planning, and construction—in all the spheres mentioned, ecosystems, buildings, communities, objects, computers and computer software—the right way to produce sufficient complexity, and does what we are doing have a chance of success?

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• In modern architecture, neither design nor construction typically works step by step; instead there is a fixed end-state produced without realistic feedback.claim0.807
  Contrast between living process and current architectural practice.
• Only a deliberate process of creating being-like centers in built structure throughout the world encourages the world to become more alive.claim0.803
  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.
• A well-constructed process virtually guarantees that each person will be able to make a coherent design.claim0.803
  Asserts that the step-by-step unfolding method prevents incoherent results.
• Our present forms of planning, design, construction, and production are deeply flawed because they do not include step-by-step adaptation and cannot in principle do so as they are.claim0.803
  Sweeping indictment of current production systems.
• The modern world we build, because its construction is driven by our attitudes about money, production, design, building, and planning, breaks from smooth unfolding at almost every stage.claim0.802
  Critique of contemporary building processes.
• Architecture cannot be good so long as we try to do it within a mechanical conception of matter.claim0.801
  The impossibility of good architecture under mechanistic cosmology.
• Viewing the system as a collection of applications is a valid and useful approach.claim0.799
  Foundational assumption for the pattern language.
• It is, ultimately, the process, not the design, which gives life to a building.claim0.796
  Emphasizes process over blueprint.