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What are the characteristics of a City Lot?

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The city environs impose a sense of confinement and oppression, limited space and compact plans, scale is an important design consideration, city streets and pedestrian walks are dominant lines of approach, observation, and access, plan elements adjacent to the street may provide noise abatement, depth, privacy, and security.

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What should be considered when designing in a City Lot?

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The city is a desert of pavement and masonry; design an oasis with earth, plants, and water treated as sculptural or architectural elements.

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What are the characteristics of a Rural Site?

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The plan is more open, free, and 'exploded', visual limits may include extensive sweeps of the landscape, scheme must be planned to the horizon, the landscape is dominant in character and mood, and the site structure diagram and architecture should reflect adaptation to the climate.

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What are the design considerations for a Steeply Sloping Site?

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Contour planning is generally indicated, level plane is achieved by terracing, retaining walls, supported platforms, or cantilevers, and design forms must express stability to be pleasing.

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What are the characteristics of a Level Site?

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A level site offers a minimum of plan restrictions, plan interest depends on the relationship of space to space, object to space, and object to object, site character is created by introduced elements, and where flatness equals monotony, maximize every topographical opportunity.

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List some other types of sites mentioned in the text.

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Mountainous, windswept, snow-covered, forest, streamside, boulder-strewn, pastoral, pond, waterfall, river edge, lakeshore, island, estuarine, oceanfront, resort, suburban, institutional campus, business district, industrial park, heavy industrial.