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3 domain-specific abstractions whose origin domain is Urban Planning.

  • Neighbourhood unit — Clarence Perry's residential planning model organizing a population around a walkable elementary school and internal civic spaces, bounded by arterial roads and served by local streets and shops.
  • Ribbon Development — A linear settlement-growth morphology in which buildings accumulate frontage-by-frontage along an existing road, rail line, canal, coast, or ridge instead of consolidating into a compact urban fabric.
  • Transect (urban) — An urban-planning model arranging zones along a rural-to-urban intensity gradient so form standards vary coherently with context.