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In Defense of Cities
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Flexibility, not shape |
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2001-10-01 09:50:25 |
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Where Gilmore missed the point is in thinking that decentralization is a function of which topography is chosen, instead of how the topography is chosen. A decentralized topography may be more or less concentrated, there may be more or fewer hot spots -- what matters is that the topography can change at run time. A centralized topography doesn't have to be hub and spoke, but it does have to be defined at compile time.
...what is centralized or decentralized isn't the message flow, it is the capacity to make decisions.
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