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Urban design

the claim, from Alexander, that living cities have overlapping, semi-lattice relations among their parts, unlike planned cities organized as strict trees.

In urban design, semi-lattice refers to the claim, from Alexander, that living cities have overlapping, semi-lattice relations among their parts, unlike planned cities organized as strict trees. This meaning comes from Alexander (2016) in A city is not a tree.[1]

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  1. Alexander, C. (2016). A city is not a tree (50th anniversary ed.). Sustasis Press. ISBN 9780989346979

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