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The above question can be equally rephrased as follows: Is the goodness of architecture a matter of fact, or of opinion? Is the goodness of an artifact a matter of fact, or of opinion? Give me of...
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I am proof reading the following paper, in which I used an image showing the evolution of Amsterdam from the 16th to 18th century (see below). Jiang B. (2015), Wholeness as a hierarchical graph to...
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Presented below are two patterns created from the data set: 1024 cities that follow precisely Zipf’s law, which implies that the first largest city is size 1, the second largest city is size 1/2,...
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