ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book focuses on the relationship between formal composition and spatial configuration during the evolution of American urban from initial colonization of the New World to the post-war period. It examines the resolution of B. Hillier's principles of centrality and linearity in the formal composition of the American urban grid. The book demonstrates the process effect on spatial configuration in accordance with these principles in obeying laws of spatial emergence and convergence. It provides a series of representative case studies to demonstrate the laws of spatial emergence in the design of the American urban grid; that is, predictable "global spatial effects" arising from purely "local physical moves". The book also demonstrates that global and local spatial parameters also differentiate well-defined named areas and neighborhoods in American cities in a manner consistent with that previously found in other cities of the world.
