Urban and suburban grids should be flexible, and adaptable to historic changes. The Kagome net is compared with a Cartesian and a polar one, and in three dimensions a cuboctahedral/cubic space frame is compared with an orthogonal one and with an octet frame. The interactions between demographic distributions and geometry generated a cybernetic system in which changes in one constantly engender forces which in turn modify the other.
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cf. Interviews with Robert LeRicolais, in VIA (Graduate School of Fine Arts, University of Pennsylvania), Volume 2, pp 81, 85 and 93. cf. also Zodiac, Vol. 22 (1973).
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