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The figure-ground discloses three conditions –

1. At the center is the extremely low footprint of the Capitol Complex. This figure ground is, however, deceptive in part, because the Secreteriat is a unquestionably the densest object of the city by far.
2. To the South is the low density neighborhood of the planned city.
3. To the North is the sporadic high density of the old village cores, now much grown, accompanied by the intermediate density of rural-sprawl