[Editors] a word use question

[Ezra Haber Glenn]

As usual when encountering a tricky usage question, I would try to
avoid the issue by rewriting as:

  Shifting from asphalt to grass to photovoltaic cells, spaces can be
  dynamically reconfigured -- from city-street to park to energy
  source -- on demand.

(Also, note the introduction of the hyphen in "city-street" --
although not everyone agrees on this point, I think it is important,
since the noun city is being used as an adjective as part of a
compound-noun.)

--Ezra

At Tue, 4 Mar 2014 20:23:12 +0000, Scott R. Campbell wrote:
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> This question has been posed to me and I don’t know the answer.  Should the word in this sentence be ‘between’ or ‘among’?  
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> Rotating between asphalt, grass and photovoltaic cells, spaces can dynamically shift from city street to park to energy source – on demand.
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> ‘Between’ sounds right to me but my questioner suggests that when there are more than three, ‘among’ is the right choice.  What’s the rule here?
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> It’s a caption for this image:
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Ezra Haber Glenn, AICP
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