Simulating Cities as Fractal Picturescapes
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Suppose I want to understand the 'structure' of something. Just what exactly does this mean? It means, of course, that I want to make a simple picture of it, which lets me grasp it as a whole. And it means, too, that as far as possible, I want to paint this picture out of as few elements as possible. The fewer the elements there are, the richer the relationships between them, and the more of the picture lies in the 'structure' of these relationships. (Alexander, 1979, p. 34.)
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