Perspective

Perspective relies on perspective of the viewer.  If your scene has a restricted viewing angle where you control how the viewer sees the scene and the perspective of the scene is consistent with what the viewer would see, then it will work.  If the scene is viewable from multiple angles or the scene doesn't match the viewing angle of the observer then it will look odd.

For example, painting the rear half of a building receding into the backdrop may look good when standing in front of the building, but stepping 2 ft to one side the view will not look  as effective, the perspective lines won't match.

Been Done..

Tony Koester did something like this on a scene that had a warehouse towards the rear of a scene. His discussion on this was either one of his relatively recent books or an article, I can't remember the exact reference at the moment.

Rick G.

"Realistic Model Railroad Design"

I believe the book is Tony Koester's Realistic Model Railroad Design.  

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I'm not sure of what you are referring to as I don't see a link.  Perhaps it is something like this?