Aleksander calls the “lace” (liner “tentacles” of new residential buildings), penetrating the agricultural environment), due to the alternation of low and high densities, etc. p. A fine -grained texture of this kind can be extremely rare in a modern city, although it contains huge premises of the diversity of the environment, the choice of the type of housing and the formation of interesting spatial forms.
There is also a texture of activity in time: some areas are lively 24 hours a day, while others come to life for only a few hours, freezing for the rest of the time. There are places allocated entirely to one time of activity at all times of the day (hence the coarse -grainedness of the texture of the time), while in other Yudin the type of activity is sharply and suddenly replaced by another (fine -grained, rough texture) or, finally, various functions can exchange one another, smoothly superimposed (fine -grained, smooth texture). The same area can play the role of the vegetable market in the morning, the playground – in the afternoon, the places of adult meetings – in the evening – almost without interaction and even more conflict – due to the clarity of the borders of the transitions over time. Old and new, temporary or permanent can both coexist and contrast; and for temporary “granularity” the same considerations are true as for spatial: the subtlety of the texture gives significant advantages. Most highly appreciate places where contrasting form of activity easily and quickly replace one another, while the periodic desertness of spaces given to one activity of activity seems ineffective (however, confirmation of this requires special studies). Our urban planning is excessively focuses on spatial systems, practically ignoring their organization in time.
Other types of displacement can be identified inside the urban planning form, to which the idea of the texture is applicable. This is the “granularity” of control (large territories in the monopoly possession and the fractional mosaic of private and public spaces, passage courtyards, playgrounds and wastelands), and the “granularity” of the microclimate and ecosystems (from the open field to the courtyard and glued bars of the house production) and T. p. It seems that the characteristic of the “mixtures” is ultimately much more important for the quality of the settlement than those aspects of the urban planning form that the planners were keen on: the total value, the outlines of the settlement or the two -dimensional drawing of the street network.
