Two of the most problematic issues facing our cities is density and transportation. Some feel the city is not a natural system but a curse. While others think it will be the answer to the future of mankind. As people continue to live and work in urban areas the need for bigger and more diverse populations confront the inhabitants, administrators and leaders. My vision of the modern city combines layering and vertical living. While only mankind is suited to this type of living other forms of life must maintain a horizontal existence. The compartmentalization of human activity will mean that different group will need to cooperate for basic necessities in a physical and topographic form. For instance, the topography of a site can be expanded to show areas of a region. By turning these contours on end and expanding the volumes horizontally, the result is a building which layers and shelters its inhabitants. The concentric characteristics of the topography building make an abstract form in plan and in three dimension. The plan as seen on the enclosed sketch is the basic concentric form Ebeneezer Howard proposed in 1800's. The twist to this is the changes and diversity of the plan.
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