A City Is Not a Computer

I was really drawn at the start to this idea of a tree versus a lattice structure in cities. So i wrote about how a city is like an information processing machine, which came out in places. And then somebody reminded me, after the fact, that christopher alexander, who, as you prob know, is an architect whose work has been very influential to computer programmers and designers across the aride array,. In that piece, he contrasts the idea of a city as a tree form, which is a kind of a symmetrical, heavily designed type of master planning, verse the city is a semi lattuc which is more organic, really tightly interwoven. I think that