City grid design

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

A PhD student at the University of California, Berkeley has recreated hand-drawn city maps which each show one square mile of a city's road networks.

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.

Shift Perspectives brings a woven, miniature Big Apple into your living room.

Steam Workshop::Great Plan City 2 Map (vanilla)

With new research in hand, Fanis Grammenos revisits his analysis of the efficiency of the Simple Grid, and asks what, in fact, should be the preferred layout for a new neighbourhood.