In a living process, every step is done in such a way as to increase the beauty—the life—of the whole.

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• Each step in a living process enhances the whole.claim0.912
  Core thesis of the chapter: all action in a living process aims at increasing the beauty, life, and coherence of the whole.
• In a living design process, every step must be concerned with the whole and must make the feeling of the whole more profound.claim0.881
  Restatement of the central principle in the context of the Claremont Canyon example.
• Every living process must necessarily be an adaptive, step-by-step process that creates unity by adapting the structure into harmony with what exists.claim0.867
• At every step, the process does its utmost to enhance the structure of the whole, and shapes its parts to make this enhancement happen.claim0.855
  Central normative statement of the living process; defines the correct unfolding.
• 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.claim0.854
  Operational definition of the incremental, self-correcting nature of living process.
• 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.claim0.849
  Positions living process as an refined version of innate human creativity, not an artificial imposition.
• A living process always creates something unique at every point, respecting the uniqueness of every person and every place.claim0.848
• How, in a living process, do we take the first steps of design so that a beautiful, coherent whole begins to take shape?question0.843
  Transition to the problem of design process.