Here’s one that includes more cities around the world
God dammit, Rio 💀
Probably correlates fairly tightly to the age of the city.
More like how organically (or slowly, if you will) it grew and how walkable it is. I suspect the ones that looks like crosses are made mostly for car traffic.
Showing Atlanta the same as Denver means the level of abstraction is so high as to make this meaningless.
Ah, that explains Boston.
That’s what happens when a city never gets a chance to burn to the ground and start over.
I wish this map weighted streets for density. Seattle is mostly NSEW as portrayed in the plot, but the downtown core famously has two competing grid systems.
Yeah, I think it’s something you see in any city built in the last several hundred years that’s near water and engaged it maritime transport. Recent enough that we discovered that the grid system makes sense and simplifies things, and near water which gives one rational orientation for the grid, coast aligned centered around the port, ripe to conflict with the other “north south” sensible alignment.
If you look at Detroits roads, it’s got three grids, one north-south, one aligned to one part of the coast, and another smaller one aligned to a different part of the coast. It’s also fun because you can still see the faint remnants of when the roads were a radial spoke system built around the original french fort that caused the city.
Manhattan never gets far enough from the coast to switch.
It makes me wonder about cities with notable rivers built after the grid system. Do they align to the river, or just build bridges and pretend it’s not there?
Charlotte might be earth’s most confusing city.
Most places in Europe would have a graph similar to Charlotte. Only new cities in the colonies were build to a rectangular grid.
by this charlotte looks more similar to naturally grown old world citys.
Boston and Charlotte need to be defragged.
Having driven in a handful of these cities, I would say that Charlotte’s is grossly inadequate at describing the sheer chaos that city is.
My cousin lives there, and he’s a cousin I enjoy very much. It’s a running joke that I must love him a lot if I’m willing to get within fifty miles of those roads. I swear by all that’s holy, if he ever moves, I will never enter that city again.
DC, Pittsburgh, Philly, Atlanta, Savannah, Baltimore, Cleveland, Asheville, Nashville, Knoxville, I’ve driven in all of those anything from a week to a year+, and none of them match the sheer psychotic horror that is Charlotte’s roads (and drivers).
Any of the cities I’ve spent a day or two in are the same.
If the graphs here are indicative of anything other than road orientation, I will never go to Boston without a tank and plenty of ammunition for it. No way would I deal with Charlotte level fuckery and a bunch of damn yankees honking in their strange language through their nose as well.
Boston is just the worst to drive in.
At least the drivers don’t just sit at lights when they turn green. Your ass is getting honked at in under half a second.
A whole half second?
They should try driving in Charlotte. Mfrs are honking on the horn as the light turns. I’m now up in Winston-Salem and these mofos will definitely take their time to decide if they should go on a green.
This graph is not even showing the worst part. Many of those streets going higgledy-piggledy into each other are one way. Sometimes, the only way to get from one point to another point on the other side of a neighborhood is to drive out of the neighborhood, go around it, and come back in on the other side.
Almost as if only the US cities were so planned in advance that everything is in a grid.
Make fun of Charlotte all you want. It’s the only one here that passed its standardized Scantron tests, since it’s the only one that colored that circle fully in.
Does Denver’s downtown just not show up at all? It’s at 45 degrees to the rest of the city.
*looks at orlando*
Yeah this data is bullshit lol. Or it’s looking exclusively at the city center and not the city as a whole
Even that doesn’t hold up. See Seattle’s city center.
