70 — Christopher Alexander — 1/2 —Notes on the Synthesis of Form
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The City Is Not a Tree
"A city is not a tree" is an attempt to make architecture a kind of computational process so he's criticized by a tree. He says in barkley at the corner of Hearst and Euclid there is a drugstore and outside the drugstore a traffic light. "I thought I might throw in another short text which he's done which is written a year or so later called a City is not a Tree it's interesting because it it's taken to be a kind of critique of actually this attempt to make Architecture a Computational Process"
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