Description: The Fused Grid: A Contemporary Urban Pattern.Balanced Approach to Development.A contemporary street pattern that responds to environmental and quality of life issues.The Fused Grid is a neighbourhood and district layout model. It combines the geometries of inner city grids and of the conventional suburbs. This fusion results in retaining the best characteristics of each and none of their disadvantages while raising the quality of the neighbourhood environment.
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Cites, old and new, display a large collection of patterns, some dating back millennia and some very recent. Can anyone of these be used when laying out a new city district? Are the recent ones unquestionably contemporary and, therefore, most suitable or could old ones be just as suitable for current use?
On the evidence that each and every one of these patterns has been applied in many a city or district, and that they have been in continuous use and still intact as part of certain cities’ fabric, we may reason that each is equally suitable for replication. In this vein, any historic urban pattern can also be a contemporary pattern.