Successful adaptation

Adaptation in a complex system, requires the constant shaping and forming of individual centers, in relation to the whole. The success of the adaptation comes from the freedom which the center-forming process has to make each center strong, to make it centered in relation to other nearby centers. As we have seen, this process is essentially and necessarily dynamic. It can only be done, step by step, as the conception of the building, and its details, evolve, in planning, in design, and in construction.

Transformations are applicative, but structure-preserving transformations are monadic? Alexander’s process requires step-by-step adaptation, which is only possible if the “data model is piped all the way through”.

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