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Piecemeal planning

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Path in Reston, Virginia

[Compared to large overall modernist planned zones,] traditional piecemeal planning, Alexander claims, gives more differentiation and more textural and spatial variety, more internal differences, more levels of detail. (See Alexander 1987)

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