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Related, A City is not a Tree: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_City_Is_Not_a_Tree https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_City_Is_Not_a_Tree 1965 essay: https://blog

• awaythrow999 3y ago
  Not just related. It __is__ the essay. This is like rewriting No Silver Bullet without giving credit to Brooks.
  • lupire 3y ago
    "Not a tree" is a more specific argument about connectivity than the OP article. It's certainly related.
  • thadk 3y ago
    Indeed, the first three words in the book version of this essay are credit to Christopher Alexander's original.
  • JoeJonathan 3y ago
    The book very explicitly gives credit to the essay, so much so that Mattern frames the argument in relation to the earlier essay.
• ysofunny 3y ago
  but how about a forest?
• jboynyc 3y ago
  Also: “A City is Not a Semilattice Either” https://doi.org/10.1068/a080375 https://doi.org/10.1068/a080375
  • samatman 3y ago
    Usable link https://kylewoodward.com/blog-data/pdfs/references/harary+rockey-environment-and-planning-a-1976A.pdf https://kylewoodward.com/blog-data/pdfs/references/harary+ro...
  • __MatrixMan__ 3y ago
    They knew we'd be having this conversation way back in 1976. > It seems that even general structural configurations, such as graphs or digraphs with certain specified properties, will fail to characterize a city, whose complexity, at this stage, may well continue to be understood more readily through negative rather than positive descriptions.