Giambattista Nolli's Map of Rome, 1748  
"In Nolli's map the outdoor civic space is a positive void and is more figural than the solids that define it.  Space is conceived as a positive entity in an integrated relationship with the surrounding solids.  This is the opposite of the modern concept of space, where buildings are figural, freestanding objects, and space is an uncontained void.  In Nolli, the void is figural." Finding Lost Space, Roger Trancik