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Finally, here's a land-use plan that combats the loss of farmland to ever-growing suburbs.  By grouping buildings into compact Neighborhoods (such as the small black triangles in the center of the drawing), the plan achieves a density of over 14,000 people per square mile while leaving 75% of the land available for cultivation.

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The basic unit is the Town, the yellow-and-white triangle one mile on a side.  Each Town is divided into 16 smaller triangles 400 meters on a side.  Only the ten triangles shown in color are developed.  They're called Villages; one is shown in green.  The other six white triangles, each containing 17.3 acres, can be used for small agricultural fields.

Each Village is likewise subdivided into 16 smaller triangles:  ten Neighborhoods and six one-acre gardens.  A neighborhood, 100 meters on a side, contains one or more multi-story buildings for apartments, condominiums, retail stores, and so on.  It is designed for 100 residents.

Therefore, a Village of ten Neighborhoods has a population of 1,000 (green triangle), and a Town of ten Villages has a population of 10,000.  Ten Towns are grouped together to form a 100,000-population Borough, four miles on a side (slightly larger than this drawing).  The Borough also includes six large 277-acre farms interspersed among its ten Towns.

Within the seven square miles of the triangular Borough, (10/16)3 or less than 25% of the land is used for Neighborhoods and their buildings.  The rest is fields and gardens.