A City is not a Tree

6-page original text in English of the article “Theory of Environmental Design, Complexity VI”, published in the Japanese Journal Toshi-Jutaku; it presents, in the author’s thesis, his theories vs. Christopher Alexanders published works “Notes on the Synthesis of Form”, “Community ...

Christopher Alexander states in the "Notes on the Synthesis of Form" that the object of design is form, and consequently the problem of design is to fit the form with its context. Form is the part of the world which ...

The prevailing idea being the search for goodness of fit between form and its context, Alexander postulated that in today's selfconscious design process, in order to attain a good design there must be an underlying correspondence between the structure of ...