ABSTRACT
The building types that line the arterial are as standardized as any in history. Like all building types, they are the result of an evolving set of conditions and values that have shaped their configurations minutely. Within a static tissue, even substantial variations in types and transformations in scale can seem comfortable and can be managed by planners with relative ease. The arterial street is the backbone of a hierarchy of roads that we take for granted but that is fundamentally different from the streets of traditional cities, which were all joined together in a connected, much less hierarchical system that provided multiple paths of travel. Even without the urging of planners, developers have embraced fake types in much greater numbers recently due to a characteristic of building types: It conveys a strong message of association with the past, whether a building is a contemporary rendition of a type or a fake.
