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A building setback is an established distance between a building or part of a building to another thing. This 'other thing' is often a Road , Street or property line, but it is often some division of the building itself. A monumental and historical example of a ''setback'' is the Stair -like wall profile of a Ziggurat . In these buildings the area in Plan is diminished regularly for each Floor that is successively farther from the Ground . This even and incremental stepping of a building's walls is also a frequent characteristic of buildings on Manhattan island, that date from the early and middle twentieth century. A notable architect from this period is Raymond Hood , and this tendency in Urban Planning was guided by the 1916 Zoning Ordinance . The intention of this Code was to provide more Light , and Air around busy streets, as a form of critical resistance to over Crowd ing. The 1961 Zoning Ordinance provided another kind of setback guideline, one that was intended to increase the amount of public space in Cities . This was achieved by placing unified and Monolithic buildings a greater distance back from the streets, creating in each instance an open space, or Plaza at street level. Other examples of building setbacks exist, that are less rigorous, such as the Taos Pueblo in Taos , New Mexico , USA, whose Asymmetrical building blocks seem to have aggregated unevenly to form an architectural Variety . REFERENCES
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