I thought I was going to hate this essay but it was wonderful. He discusses the graph structure of a city: it should be a semi-lattice and not a tree, and ther

I thought I was going to hate this essay but it was wonderful. He discusses the graph structure of a city: it should be a semi-lattice and not a tree, and there we agree entirely. But a city should be a tree in the sense that it's an organic structure that iteratively improves in response to local knowledge, rather than a centrally planned crystal that assumes perfect foreknowledge of needs.