Looks
Areas grouped by what the buildings and streets physically are, rather than by where they are.
Buildings set in grounds rather than on a street. Quadrangles, lawns, paths and a consistent architecture across the whole site.
Columns, broad steps, stone facades and open plazas. Courthouses, museums, libraries, government blocks and the squares they face.
Open highway through arid ground. Scrub, rock, power lines and very long sightlines in both directions.
Worked fields, fences, barns and outbuildings, with long uninterrupted horizons.
Where built ground stops and tree cover starts. Tracks, clearings, single roads running into cover.
Towers in glass, stone or concrete, with the street below in shadow for most of the day and the sky cut into pieces.
Working ground rather than finished buildings. Rail spurs, container stacks, gravel, chain link, tanks and cranes.
Detached and semi detached houses, two or three storeys, with porches, front yards, driveways and street trees.
A commercial spine with storefronts at ground level and one or two floors above. Awnings, signage, parked cars at the kerb, and the buildings low enough to hold sky in the frame.
Trade spilling onto the pavement. Stalls, crates, awnings, hanging goods and dense overlapping signage.
Continuous runs of attached houses, brick or stucco, most of them built before the Second World War. Long matching facades, front steps, and almost no space between one house and the next.
Promenades, piers, beach huts and amusements. The buildings face the water and the light comes off it.
Steel structure carrying track above the roadway, with columns down the middle of the street and light falling through the deck in bars.
Nineteenth and early twentieth century industrial buildings. Loading docks, freight doors, heavy cornices, and wide low streets.
Blocks that end at the water. Piers, bulkheads, beach or creek, and the streets that run down to them.