Urban Street Network Orientation – Geoff Boeing
My new article, Urban Spatial Order: Street Network Orientation, Configuration, and Entropy, has just been published in one of my favorite journals: Applied Network Science (download free PDF). Thi…
My new article, Urban Spatial Order: Street Network Orientation, Configuration, and Entropy, has just been published in Applied Network Science (download free PDF ). This work was previously shortlisted by the 2018 Information Is Beautiful Awards . This study explores the spatial signatures of urban evolution and central planning. It examines street network orientation, connectivity, granularity, and entropy in 100 cities around the world using OpenStreetMap data and OSMnx for modeling and visualization: So, who’s got a grid and who doesn’t? Each of the cities above is represented by a polar h
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