‘It’s your turn.’ What would you do?
This paragraph is interesting because the hypothetical exercise is very much so applicable metaphorically in the design world. Although there may be no external direction applied on one's design, others ideas can be used, manipulated and or, just not used entirely at all. At the end of the day, what you design is accumulation of these decisions listed but more importantly the accumulation of what you personally think is best.
ne way to measure the size of a eld is to divide it into rectangles and right-angled triangles,
This is extremely intelligent for the people of this time to use a method of such that allows for whole numbers and right angles to measure land. It reminds me of LARCH history class last year when we talked about how the early Americans based street layouts given the complexity of the landscape it resides on. This idea evolved complex street ideas and even simple grid like ideas.