# City as metaphor for visual aspects online design

Canonical page: https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2006-01-06-a-list-apart-articles-thinking-outside-the-grid

The piece uses an urban-planning metaphor to explain how coding methods constrain and enable visual web design.

Blog post · Hermeneutic Heretic · 6 January 2006

## Where it lives

- [Read it on Hermeneutic Heretic (web.archive.org)](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/01/06/a-list-apart-articles-thinking-outside-the-grid/)

## About this item

- Type: Blog post
- Published: 6 January 2006
- Published in: Hermeneutic Heretic
- Language: English

Topics: web-design, metaphor, css, technology.

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