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Figure-ground contrast, in the context of map design, is a property of a map in which the map image can be partitioned into a single feature or type of feature that is considered as an object of attention (the figure), with the remainder of the map being relegated to the background, outside the current focus of attention. [1]
A figure-ground diagram is a two-dimensional map of an urban space that shows the relationship between built and unbuilt space. It is used in analysis of urban design and planning . It is akin to but not the same as a Nolli map which denotes public space both within and outside buildings and also akin to a block pattern diagram that records ...
Circa-1930-to-1945 postcard of the bridge. The Boston University Bridge was designed by Andrew Canzanelli [3] and built by The Phoenix Bridge Company in 1927, replacing an 1850s drawbridge [1] known as the Brookline Bridge. [4] Canzanelli also designed the Weeks footbridge and the first shell constructed on the Esplanade. [3]
This list of bridges in Germany lists bridges of particular historical, scenic, architectural or engineering interest. Road and railway bridges, viaducts, aqueducts and footbridges are included. Road and railway bridges, viaducts, aqueducts and footbridges are included.
Eleventh Street Bridge Extant Warren truss: 1915 1990 Eleventh Street Turners Falls Canal: Montague: Franklin: MA-108: Boston and Albany Railroad, Marion Street Bridge Replaced Warren truss: 1896 1990 Marion Street Boston and Albany Railroad: Natick
Built in 1867, it was the world's shortest functioning suspension bridge before its conversion to a girder bridge in 1921. [1]A plaque reads, "Public Garden / Foot Bridge / Opened June 1, 1867 / Designers / Clemens Herschel, Civil Engineer / 1842 - 1930 / William G. Preston, Architect / 1842 - 1910 / Tablet Placed June 1, 1936 / Boston Society of Civil Engineers".
The Boston Bridge is a structure that crosses the Youghiogheny River between Versailles and Elizabeth Township, Pennsylvania.Its name is derived from the Massachusetts city only indirectly: the bridge is named for the Boston neighborhood of Elizabeth Township, which in turn was named for the New England city.
The Leonard P. Zakim (/ ˈ z eɪ k ə m /) Bunker Hill Memorial Bridge (also known as "The Zakim") is a cable-stayed bridge completed in 2003 across the Charles River in Boston, Massachusetts. It is a replacement for the Charlestown High Bridge , an older truss bridge constructed in the 1950s.