The second process is a more living process because it helps create gradual improvement in living centers in the world.

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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.claim0.825
  Positions living process as an refined version of innate human creativity, not an artificial imposition.
• In a living process, every step is done in such a way as to increase the beauty—the life—of the whole.quote0.813
  Encapsulates the chapter's main message.
• This is a more living process. The result is likely to be more humane, better for the neighborhood.claim0.810
• Living processes are necessarily generative: large precedes small, and the whole creates the conditions for the part.claim0.804
• The core of a living process is that it comes from people, from their inner desires—and genuinely does so; that it meets their archetypal core, and thereby makes them feel at home.claim0.803
  Foundational assertion about user-centered origin of living structure.
• Each step in a living process enhances the whole.claim0.802
  Core thesis of the chapter: all action in a living process aims at increasing the beauty, life, and coherence of the whole.
• 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.claim0.802
  Operational definition of the incremental, self-correcting nature of living process.
• Only a deliberate process of creating being-like centers in built structure throughout the world encourages the world to become more alive.claim0.801
  Proposition 4 of the Mid-Book Appendix; the normative and practical conclusion tying individual search for the true self to the creation of a living world.