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artifact:nolli-plan-of-rome-c-1700Nolli plan of Rome (c. 1700)
The famous figure-ground plan of Rome showing public space as white, solid-like carved out of private blocks, an exemplar of positive space.
Neighborhood — ranked by edge-count
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- Positive SpaceaboutThe property that every bit of space swells outward, is substantial in itself, and is never the leftover from an adjacent shape; every single part of space has positive shape as a center with no amorphous meaningless leftovers
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- How Living Process Lays The Groundwork For Coherence Of A City Through The Hulls Of Public SpacecitesChapter 3 of A Vision of a Living World, introducing the concept of hulls of public space as positive, living spaces shaped by structure-preserving transformations in urban design.