Go Figure: Figure-ground as a Land Use/Transportation Tool
It has long been widely recognized by many city planners, urban designers, architects, landscape architects, and historic preservationists, that, among many other influences, a viable community has a balanced relationship between building mass and open space that gives it a sense of compactness, spatial definition, and is in human scale. A typical figure-ground. This concern is even more relevant...
July 28th, 2010
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![a[1]. typical](http://www.tripplannermag.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/a1.-typical-e1279576332231-1024x645.jpg)
![b[1]. noli plan](http://www.tripplannermag.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/b1.-noli-plan-231x300.jpg)
![d[1]. sketch](http://www.tripplannermag.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/d1.-sketch1-300x300.jpg)


