**Pattern Name:** Pathways
**Introduction:**
Sometimes the sequence will matter, like it sometimes does when cooking and preparing a meal.
**Illustration:**
Deming's 1951 Business as A System Diagram
**CONTEXT:**
Pathways connect patterns into living sequences, into Pattern Languages. Each neighborhood should study historical patterns as well as other neighborhoods' patterns and pathways in order do inform their on local creations.
Patterns link to one another to form pathways toward wholeness and completeness of each neighborhood's way of living. The pathways are paths though the set of interconnected patterns. They are sentences and stories told in the pattern language. They are paths through the network graph of related patterns.
**PROBLEM:** **Encyclopedic knowledge is too comprehensive to be of practical use in design.**
**Forces:**
**THEREFORE (SOLUTION):** **Find or create reliable sequences (recipes) for designing and improving local systems.**
**Actions:**
Leave room for local specifics. Don't over specify sequences.
Share proven sequences discovered as we relocalize.
**Consequences:**
**Known Uses:**
Process diagrams are used widely in business and government.
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