City grid design

Visualizing density across the urban world.

At a glance, the overall pattern formed by these first 25 polar histograms (or: rose diagrams) is clear: orthogonal grids, mostly aligned with cardinal directions in orientation, dominate American cities. There are exceptions, but most streets run north, south, east and west. Geoff Boeing, an assistant professor of urban informatics at Northeastern University, recently moved

hand made fantasy map. I 'design' complete fantasy cities, no new one, but places that are grown over centuries. This city is situated at beginning/end (how does that work?) of an inlet, where two rivers end in sea. Completely drawns with pencils, so notice the colour difference between north and south... as I ran out of pencils :( 2011.

Urbanismo

Over the years, a number of fans have suggested that 99% Invisible cover a series of strange concrete arrows found scattered across the American countryside. They date back to the 1920s and were used to help guide airmail planes across the nation. While in use, the arrows were painted bright yellow and were accompanied by towers

The decision of a city in Texas to plan for new growth using a grid of streets has inspired readers and makes a lot of sense.

Check out the journal article about OSMnx. All figures in this article come from this journal article, which you can read/cite for more. The heart of Allan Jacobs’ classic book on street-leve…

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