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Architecture - Designing Cities Like Software

Architecture - Designing Cities Like Software

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Ryan Cole explores the overlooked parallels between urban planning and software architecture, examining how cities and digital systems solve identical problems of scale, load distribution, and fault tolerance using different vocabularies. Drawing from RTI International's 2020 Innovation Corridor blueprint, he argues both disciplines independently invented solutions for graceful degradation and horizontal scaling—yet rarely learn from each other's decades of trial, error, and hard-won architectural wisdom.

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