A living process is always natural, similar to the best kind of natural process, but it goes deeper and includes additional centers that naive natural process may miss.

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• A living process always creates something unique at every point, respecting the uniqueness of every person and every place.claim0.886
• Living process may be characterized by the idea that it is the simplest process which exists in any given set of circumstances.claim0.884
  A core definitional claim about the nature of living process.
• Living processes are necessarily generative: large precedes small, and the whole creates the conditions for the part.claim0.879
• A living process is any adaptive process which generates living structure, step by step, through structure-preserving transformations.claim0.874
  Core definition that anchors the whole chapter; asserts the necessary and sufficient structure of life-creating activity in the built world.
• A living process is a step-by-step adaptive process that goes forward in small increments, with opportunity for feedback and correction at every step.claim0.872
  Operational definition of the incremental, self-correcting nature of living process.
• Every living process is, throughout its length and breadth, congruent with feeling and governed by feeling.claim0.868
  Essential feature of living process, making phenomenological experience the central criterion for evaluation.
• Living processes are by nature morphogenetic; they are aimed at creating positive space and making form coherent.claim0.867
  Core definition of living process as intentionally form-creating, in contrast to fragmented modern processes.
• Living process respects the uniqueness of every place and the particularity of the people there, making the environment lovable and establishing belonging.claim0.861
  Synthesis of how adaptation in living process creates emotional attachment.