The stronghold has for the most part preserved the ground plan with its massive wings and a courtyard in the middle.
The iron ore belt, the coalfields, the location of forests and water power formed for society a sort of ground plan and mankind had to conform to it.
That ground plan has now been destroyed, very largely because of the development of motive power and the increase in mobility.
It is not difficult to superimpose those plans upon a ground plan to see what buildings the mining will affect.
No architect, at least no sane architect, ever built one wing of a building before he had a ground plan of the whole.
What has happened to this great design, this ground plan, this master strategy?
Are they prepared to stand up against private vested interests to secure the intelligent ground plan for the economy of the nation as a whole?
I believe that, in the stress of events, a kind of ground plan of the future structure is beginning to appear.
