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Also: “A City is Not a Semilattice Either”

Usable link https://kylewoodward.com/blog-data/pdfs/references/harary+ro...

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.

Not just related. It __is__ the essay. This is like rewriting No Silver Bullet without giving credit to Brooks.

"Not a tree" is a more specific argument about connectivity than the OP article. It's certainly related.

Indeed, the first three words in the book version of this essay are credit to Christopher Alexander's original.

The book very explicitly gives credit to the essay, so much so that Mattern frames the argument in relation to the earlier essay.

but how about a forest?