Cut 
Merge 
Implied Area 
Containment 
Community 
Grid 
Combination
Cut – Streets cut through communities creating fragments of buildings.
Merge – When buildings from different communities collide, they merge creating one.
Implied area – Trimmed elements create implied areas
Containment – Certain streets create a boundary containing a community within.
Community – A collection of buildings in a repetitive pattern. Together the buildings create a larger shape with the extents of the buildings
Grid – Several orthogonal streets create a grid. Grids are also produced by building placement.
Combination – Combinations of elements produce the city such as
- Large/small grids
- Contained/open communities
- Wide/narrow streets
- Simple/complex buildings
- Straight/curved streets
- Organization/randomness
Quotes
- “The artist (architect) as both something of a bricoleur and something of a scientist!” (105)
- “Collision of palaces, piazze and villas, to that inextricable fusion of imposition and accommodation, that highly successful traffic jam of intentions” (106). – regarding Seventeen Century Rome
- “Rome provides the most graphic example of collisive fields and interstitial debris… a composition of gridded fields… with conditions of confusion and picturesque happening in between” (107).