source: https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/15uz539/city_street_network_orientation/


From the post:

Urban spatial order: street network orientation, configuration, and entropy

By: Geoff Boeing

This study examines street network orientation, configuration, and entropy in 100 cities around the world using OpenStreetMap data and OSMnx.

See full paper: https://appliednetsci.springeropen.com/articles/10.1007/s41109-019-0189-1

  • DrCrustacean [any]
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    1 year ago

    Is there an advantage to having a city's grid be perfectly oriented along NSEW? I get that if a city has a coast or waterfront, you'd want to align the grid with that, but would it mess anything up if a city's grid were rotated like 15 degrees clockwise?

    • Throwaway@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      In America, it makes it line up with existing lots. Remember that the homestead act gave a lot of people 40 acres, and those lots were oriented properly. A lot of American cities were built around those lots.

    • Vlyn@lemmy.zip
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      1 year ago

      Honestly why would the rotation matter at all? Not like the connecting roads are perfectly straight without curves either.