Living processes are necessarily generative: large precedes small, and the whole creates the conditions for the part.

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• 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.claim0.879
  Positions living process as an refined version of innate human creativity, not an artificial imposition.
• Living processes are by nature morphogenetic; they are aimed at creating positive space and making form coherent.claim0.865
  Core definition of living process as intentionally form-creating, in contrast to fragmented modern processes.
• It is always the whole which governs in a living process; even when only latent, the greater whole is the driving force controlling the shaping of parts.claim0.852
  Central principle distinguishing structure-preserving from structure-destroying processes.
• If design and construction processes are living processes, each part will become itself, adapted to local conditions and individual people.claim0.844
  Core assertion that living process translates unique place and person into unique form.
• Every living process is, throughout its length and breadth, congruent with feeling and governed by feeling.claim0.842
  Essential feature of living process, making phenomenological experience the central criterion for evaluation.
• A living process is any adaptive process which generates living structure, step by step, through structure-preserving transformations.claim0.836
  Core definition that anchors the whole chapter; asserts the necessary and sufficient structure of life-creating activity in the built world.
• A living process always creates something unique at every point, respecting the uniqueness of every person and every place.claim0.835
• Every living process must necessarily be an adaptive, step-by-step process that creates unity by adapting the structure into harmony with what exists.claim0.833