ABSTRACT
The property boundaries are the actual game board for all urban action, including planning proposals. Urban tissue is the term that urban morphologists use to describe the arrangement of lots, blocks, and streets, or the demarcation of the owned space of the city. Urban coherence depends on a certain degree of typological consistency. Most designers instinctively understand that the patterns of buildings and open spaces that make up an urban environment are fundamental to the creation and preservation of a consistent context. Static tissues are the most stable urban form that exists: They allow change to happen but only in small increments that are somewhat consistent with the original types. Typologically, the new buildings were very similar to the ones torn down. Because they needed to fit within the existing lots, they followed a very similar type, albeit much grander.
