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by jboynyc 788 days ago
Also: “A City is Not a Semilattice Either”

https://doi.org/10.1068/a080375

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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.