Important note: simulation and reality

I have laid emphasis […] in the importance of reality: that is to say, on the importance of laying out streets and houses in the land itself, as a direct response to its hollows, slopes, flat places, wooded areas, trees, nearby streets, buildings, paths and watercourses — not through the medium of construction drawings or permit drawings (which are inevitably sterile).

About simulations

Such [simulation] studies are essential. After making these kinds of studies for a given process, one is then ready to apply the process to real land, through the actions of real people.

#book/The Nature of Order/3 A Vision of a Living World/11 Necessary further dynamics of any neighborhood which comes to life#