Léon Krier is worth mentioning here. He's an architect associated with New Urbanism who also creates illustrations which demonstrate his points well. For heigh

Léon Krier is worth mentioning here. He's an architect associated with New Urbanism who also creates illustrations which demonstrate his points well. For height limits you have the architectural stutter https://www.architectural-review.com/Pictures/web/p/y/l/speech-stutte_380.jpg https://www.architectural-review.com/Pictures/web/p/y/l/spee... San Francisco vs Japan seems very much like monocentric vs polycentric development https://architecturehereandthere.files.wordpress.com/2017/01/screen-shot-2017-01-10-at-1-50-08-pm.png https://architecturehereandthere.files.wordpress.com/2017/01... -- and organic expansion through duplication https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5JgoOuUmeDg/WMhJTUWeNWI/AAAAAAAArrE/V1Fvtt37HacOF5b76ly6UndVpvPpdgdlwCLcB/s1600/Leon%2BKrier%2Bon%2BOur%2BFuture%2BCities.jpg https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5JgoOuUmeDg/WMhJTUWeNWI/AAAAAAAAr... In this talk here he talks about the classical vs vernacular layout styles https://youtu.be/kFiYL8AvvnY?t=1150 https://youtu.be/kFiYL8AvvnY?t=1150