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Documenting and analyzing the smaller elements in an urban environment can provide a variety of models, such as we see in the following slides by Richard Sommer. This leads to a more dynamic model that can be more effective when dealing with the big picture of urban planning and development.

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"So coming back then to this question of what you do with spaces like this. We developed this model which tried to look at even cutting away in the section of the spaces, at the very fragmented edge of what happens at the inboard side of the city of Boston. And that's a kind of detail of that picture - looking at the potential build-out of these areas which diverts attention away from that green swath in the middle and asks the question about the way in which the rest of the city's going to be affected and be remade...the way we did that is, again, in the big-picture, trying to group together the constituencies in a way which is similar to some of the things that Roger was talking about, that see the site quite differently."

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