6.122 the most topographically interesting in the colony as it combines the slope of the endcap with the long views obtainable across the agricultural area. The feeling would be like living in a small farm village looking out across backyard gardens from one neighborhood to another. But that image, no matter how bucolic, ought not be the only opportunity for a housing setting. The "long" view across the fields and rabbit warrens should be complemented by a range of small, closeknit, pedestrian and people-oriented streets and ways, not unlike townhouse blocks. The townhouses should at times be stacked and terraced, at times arrayed in courts with dead-end streets. The feeling conveyed by these areas would be one of diversity in houseto-cluster, cluster-to-neighborhood, and neighborhood-to-agricultural area orientation. The housing ought not reinforce the dominance of the strip-like zone of housing along the endcaps, and the threedimensional possibilities of the housing area should be exploited. The image,then, could be a small community,perhaps like a hilltown. The prototype habitation might be called "SCOPTON" (~pace ~lony ~rototype ~w~). SCOPTON would be comprised of two neighborhoods (one of each side of the "rabbit tracks"). "Colonyville" would be located on the endcap with the docking port and would concentrate the more official functions of the colony. Activities which would benefit from proximity to the accessway, including medical care, guests, communications, colony government, and colony control systems and maintenance would be located in Colonyville. "Hillgate", in the window endcap, would develop a more cultural emphasis, including education and arts activities. Retail and sports activities would be distributed more evenly to both neighborhoods. The two neighborhoods and the docking port would be tied together by "Broad Street", a pedestrian and light vehicle path which spirals down the docking port endcap and runs in a long diagonal through Colonyville, across the fields, and into Hillgate. The diagonal routing would shift emphasis from the strong longitudinal axis of the colony, create a more informal relationship between the parts of SCOPTON, and allow access to a larger perimeter of the agricultural
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