10 Summary of the effects

Positive spaces have the quality that they open into one another, one into the next. Imagine, then, one step in the unfolding process.
One of the places in the growing hull — one center — is to be made better, more living. To accomplish that, it first has to be better shaped itself.
At the same time some larger center that it belongs to is to be made stronger also — that will often be the next space, the next larger space from which this one buds off like a limb-bud.
At the same time, too, the small center we started with is also to be strengthened by the formation of some still smaller center . That means either a smaller symmetrical space — even an arch, gate, or doorway leading into it — or some detailed local symmetrical center which adds to the center that has already been formed: a fountain, a seat, perhaps something very elaborate in the middle, perhaps not ore than a stone placed beside an old tree trunk.

Repeating this process, moving from center to center within the hulls of space, we see that with time, inevitably, step by step, just that structure which I have been describing will appear.

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