City grid

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.

Road layout building tips.Watch the full series: http://bit.ly/t4r-dm3Cities: Skylines is a city-building game developed by Colossal Order and published by P...

For more visual examples of the Fused Grid concept see Albums: 3-d Models, Neighborhood layouts and conventional-grid- to- fused-grid transformations. For an explanation of the model look up: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fused_grid

Image 1 of 5 from gallery of Big Data and Urbanism: How to Organize Information for Optimal Application. Street Networks of Every City (a square mile). The consistent spatial scale allows us to easily compare different street networks. Image © Geoff Boeing. Graphics from "Spatial Information and the Legibility of Urban Form: Big Data in Urban Morphology" Under License CC BY 4.0

Image 13 of 17 from gallery of Orthogonal Grids and Their Variations in 17 Cities Viewed from Above. Guadalajara, Mexico. Created by @dailyoverview, source imagery: @maxartechnologies

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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.

“El diseño urbano de Sun City en Arizona no me deja respirar. El sprawl suburbano de Estados Unidos señoras y señores.”

Augustus Woodward, City Plan Following the 1805 Fire, Detroit, MI, 1807