The organic way of city growth: mature cities, rather than growing like a cancer out of their bounds and limits, send out colonies to form new ones. Léon Krier illustrated it thus:
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Two very different archetypes of growth: growth as expansion and growth as replication
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Sprawl (hence the word) is nonfunctional. It is like a man growing into a giant but only his legs. A cancer is organic but nonfunctional. The organic way of growth is after a family reaching maturity, a child is born who in turn will grow into maturity and so on.
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