Landscape As Structure:
Physical Patterns as an expression of earth processes. Relationship of settlement pattern to geomorphic structure. Contrast between orders of nature and orders of man; derived landscape vs. the contrived landscape: The Ecotone.
Willamette Valley, Oregon
Brownsville as expression of organic structure and idealized geometry
Brownsville at the edge, on the ecotone
Willamette Valley railroad, grain elevator and roadway on the Jeffersonian grid.
Honshu, Japan
Organic continuity and integrity of settlement pattern
Collision of organic form and geometric systems of agriculture