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Parallels between contemporary tendencies in town-planning and those in art may also be shown: for example, the plastic organization of volumes in space could be illustrated by the differentiation of building heights in a neighborhood unit or the methods of separating pedestrians and traffic. 
2. The Humanisation of the Habitat. 
The human habitat and the expanding environment:
The habitat is the place where an animal or a plant can best grown and live. This is the definition of zoologists and botanists. Also the human habitat must correspond to this definition. This means:
Nature and city can be integrated. All depends on planning. The family forms the basic cell of human society. Yet an isolated family life cut off from a larger environment providing facilities for all age groups is not sufficient. 
Examples will show how it is possible today to create an expanding environment. The human scale has not only to be employed in creating smaller units within a city, but also in showing the limits in the use of one-family houses or row houses as well as the limits in the use of multistory high rise building. 
3. The re-integration of the heart of the city.
It is necessary to recreate places and conditions so where people can meet freely without the aid of mere mechanical communications. Means have to be provided so that the present day passive spectator will become again an active citizen. 
In the core architecture and planning have to be integrated. Mobile elements normally used only by publicity or merry-go-rounds should be installed. Sufficient opportunity has to be given to evoke the spontaneity of the inhabitants so that the passive onlooker becomes an active member of the community.