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Not just related. It __is__ the essay. This is like rewriting No Silver Bullet without giving credit to Brooks.


The book very explicitly gives credit to the essay, so much so that Mattern frames the argument in relation to the earlier essay.


"Not a tree" is a more specific argument about connectivity than the OP article. It's certainly related.


Indeed, the first three words in the book version of this essay are credit to Christopher Alexander's original.




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