Architect and urban & computational designer Abhinav Bhardwaj made this great set of slides comparing urban design in the US and Europe, peppered with pithy observations like:

  • European space is shaped on purpose: American open space is what’s left over.
  • Small blocks make more corners, more routes, more street life.
  • A fine grid offers hundreds of routes; the tree offers one way out.
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[–] 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

I don't know. I don't see any grids in Europe. Mostly, streets are named for the place they go to, so really just one way to get there unless you want to go way around

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Tons of cities have grids, just maybe small ones. A theme in many places is to have an old downtown that has organic streets and a new downtown with a square grid, and then everything else is just a mess of straight and organic shapes.

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