Back to the Drawing Board
- You can almost tell which software they were designed in
- Conversational drawing
- The effort heuristic
- Tablets have caught up
Criticism of the grid and its difficulties was voiced from the start. Olmsted himself noted several problems that arose from the fixed dimensions of the city’s blocks: the impossibility of producing sites for very large buildings and campuses; issues of daylighting; the difficulty of creating systems of formal and symbolic hierarchy within the field of uniformity.