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70 — Christopher Alexander — 1/2 —Notes on the Synthesis of Form

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I Think He's Using a Tree Diagram to Generate a Network of Variables

Bear: He hasn't actually drawn the network which i think would be very difficult to understand anyway. he's making a kind of network with this huge numbers of interactions of it and that goes on for a few pages quite a few pages. The idea is that these problems should naturally shake out into like subsystems, bear says. Bear: I don't know whether he did not but yeah what he's working towards is this kind of tree diagram where you have the entire village in one place.

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