City grid design

It's strange to realize you're provincial, even though your province is New York City. Last week I was giving directions to a British tourist on the street and said "…that's about ten blocks away" when she startled me by saying "We don't do 'blocks'—what's a 'block?'" Afterwards I recalled London's

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

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

When I was two years old, my family moved from the Bay Area to Northampton, Massachusetts. My earliest memories are from there and it is one of the three or four places I usually claim as my hometo…

The Fused Grid incorporates and extends the principles underpinning Barcelona’s transformation to the design of street networks on undeveloped land.

City map ± | hand made fantasy map. I 'design' complete fant… | Flickr

Daily Overview on Instagram: "Bilbao is a city of about 350,000 people in the Basque Country of northern Spain. Its urban center, seen here along the River Nervión, features a grid of rectangular buildings and wide avenues, which is based on a similar design used in Barcelona. Within this Overview is the Doña Casilda Iturrizar public park, Guggenheim Bilbao museum and the Abando Indalecio Prieto railway station, Bilbao’s central station. — Created by @dailyoverview Source imagery…

This is going to be a blog about how to build open world cities without fancy tools and keeping things clean at the same time. In smaller productions metrics might not feel like such an important…

Hand drawn city map of Raalte (called after some Dutch town). The city is situated on two rivers, on of them being an affluent, ending in the other. It's drawn as a city as it could have grown in multiple centuries: city center, former bastions, station close to the river side, apparment buildings from the 70s and newer neighbourhoods surrounding the city. In a word: a very European city. Why it is called Raalte? Well, I just like place names ending on -e and after having made up twenty of…

This set includes drawings of quadrants, neighbourhoods and disticts that follow the Fused Grid model. The videos explain the evolution from the customary patterns to the Fused Grid network.

Choosing a Grid, or Not - Features | Planetizen

See the Top 30 shortlisted designs for the 15-Minute City Urban Design & Planning Competition organized by the Charette.

Figure 1: Six neighbourhood layout patterns found in contemporary subdivisions

One of the most common issues your city will face is congested traffic. Here are some tips to help!