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A graph grammar for the generation of topologies for the U.S. federal courthouse typology is introduced. Possible configurations are enumerated and a nomenclature is proposed.

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Grasl, T., Economou, A. (2012). Sort Machines. In: Arisona, S.M., Aschwanden, G., Halatsch, J., Wonka, P. (eds) Digital Urban Modeling and Simulation. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 242. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29758-8_7

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