TABLE OF CONTENTS - The Professional Green Building Council

Theme B: Creating a livable, healthy and environmentally viable cities5. VISUAL CONTINUITY AND VARIETY.Variety, differentiation, and openness are visual signs of incremental growth whichprovide the image of manageable change rather than imposition of whole new andintrusive change into a community. Uniform, disconnected, imposing in itsuniformity and assertive isolation.6. STRATEGY FOR INCREMENTAL GROWTH AND CHANGEStrategy which lends itself ,even as a part of the process of design, to incrementalchange, and variation, provides a platform for public participation in the processof design. Furthermore, it allows different detailed design of different parts of adevelopment under the influence of other factors such as changing priorities andchanges of environmental conditions while the fundamental considerations remainintact.Figure 4.: Pat Heung Density study444