MAIN GATEWAYS **
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Town and Country: Local networks
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Problem
Any part of a town - large or small - which is to be identified by its inhabitants as a precinct of some kind, will be reinforced, helped in its distinctness, marked, and made more vivid, if the paths which enter it are marked by gateways where they cross the boundary.
Solution
Mark every boundary in the city which has important human meaning - the boundary of a building cluster, a neighborhood, a precinct - by great gateways where the major entering paths cross the boundary.
Select High Order Pattern and
to it.
14 IDENTIFIABLE NEIGHBORHOOD **
37 HOUSE CLUSTER **
41 WORK COMMUNITY **
95 BUILDING COMPLEX **
98 CIRCULATION REALMS **
Select Low Order Pattern and
to it.
98 CIRCULATION REALMS **
110 MAIN ENTRANCE **
112 ENTRANCE TRANSITION **