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A City is not a Tree Part 1
01/04/1965
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"The City is a Semi-Lattice, but not a Tree": Original text of article "A City is not a Tree"
01/01/1964
Original 37-page text of the famous article, a milestone in the development of Alexander’s theory on design, possibly presented in a lecture before being published; at the bottom of the first page it reads “with thanks to Harris Savin for ...
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"Theory of Environmental Design - Complexity 6", text in English of the same title article published in Japanese
31/03/1969
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 ...
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Good Fit between Form & Context
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 ...
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Decomposition Process and the Diagrams
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 ...