What's the best city layout? This is an immediate

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Looks like a suburban development hell-hole where people go to die

>>901948
Yeah yeah it'd be more comfy if it was old-style natural growth but things are only going to get more organised

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>>901947
>>901948
Does it come complete with a minotaur?

>>901947
That is so much less efficient than a grid.

>>901947
What's that stuff in the middle?

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The best layout for cities is a grid with breaks where necessary for terrain and public spaces - and there's over 3,000 years of evidence to show that they work.

>>901947
>>901949
Suburbs with few interior connecting streets surrounded by arterial roads are a tragedy, the only way to make that layout worse is to add lots of dead end cul-de-sacs. Those layouts pretty much ruin all hope of any transportation ever working there aside from private cars, lock huge parcels of land into being low density residential development in perpetuity, and in most places they turn into net-revenue-drains for cities after 2-3 decades because the small number of people who live in such places don't generate enough economic activity to pay for maintaining the vast acreage of asphalt and water infra.

>>901953
It's 2015, why would anyone still use grids?

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>>901956

>>901956
Because all the best city design was in like 1715, and it was grids with some irregular bits to get lost in or enjoy the scenery for a minute or two.

>>901961
>1715

That was literally 300 years ago. A lot has changed since then.

>>901959
How does that relate to what I said?

>>901964
Because it's 2015, duh

How can it be 2015 and we're still doing something?

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>>901947
literally the design of trailer parks

grids are the best

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>>901947
>>901951
>>901953
>>901961
por que no los dos?

>grid within a circle

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>>901964
>A lot has changed since then.

Exactly— We stopped using those design principles and no modern city is anywhere near as pleasant to live in.
All we build are prisons of sadness.

>>901952
Mind-control centre and indoctrination facility I think. ;-)

>>901952
Curved airfield

Grids are objectively the most efficient. Complaints about them being 'monotonous' are stupid because no one is going to notice that unless they live in a helicopter.

People also equate the disorderly street networks of ancient cities with being the most pleasant- this probably has more to do with the fact that those cities were built on a pedestrian scale.

>>901959
Who is this current year man?

>>902006
>Grids
Every street is a main street

>Not grids
Cozy laneways and quiet alleys

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>>901947
Hexagons would be better as Circles

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>>901953
I agree, this type developmnet is shit. On the other hand, average US middle class suburb with cul-de-sacs can ve still more dense, than average European village.
With bonus being placed in agglomeration with thousands of people, instead of being last village with few hundreds people, in the valley four kilometers from another village.

Just made some footways and pedestrian bridges/tunnels to arterial road with bus stop and you can manage more, than some European places do with subsidies for transportation.

For CBD grids are the way to go. If you do flip flopping one ways it gets even better because it makes the streets feel less cramped. For comfy car based suburbs any random design is fine where you have local streets branching off a few main roads. For suburbs with public transit it gets more difficult, your best bet might be to have a train station with park and ride capabilities. This can keep the basic suburb design that people move to suburbs for while giving the local town access to transit.

>>901989
Come on, you hand picked probably the best example of poor planning. Las Vegas suffered one of the worst housing bubbles in the country after they overbuilt thousands of acres of these kinds of developments. Suburbs can be pleasant if you move to ones that are not the cookie cutter new developments where they put the same shingles and roof on every house.

>>901953
If Pompeii is so good where is it?

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>that one shitposters spewing "muh grids"
Oh yeah, they're so fucking great for transportation.

>>902107
They are actually

https://www.quora.com/Is-the-grid-system-in-city-planning-the-most-efficient

>>902138
>citing Quora

>>902140
>not citing anything

>>902107
>transportation
>posts pic of cars in one of the most densely-populated cities in the west

>>901991
>that intersection in the bottom right
The fuck is this all about? 5 way intersection?

>>902014
You can build grids with traffic calming intentions. Best way to do it is to not have every street lineup with a major street, stagger it ever 2-4 blocks to keep people from using side streets as main arteries. You can also put up blockades at the end of the block so only cars can go in one direction.
>>902107
imagine if this wasn't a grid tho. bottlenecks all over the fuckin place. Brooklyn is a better example of how they fucked up by not building a proper grid. What a clusterfuck that city is with their sideways streets and backwards ass development.

>>902218
Five way intersections are not that uncommon, especially on small local roads. They become an issue when traffic volumes warrant modernization and can be very complex projects.

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>>902218
Yes. It's the intersection at Bank in London.

>>902107
Manhattan just has too much volume and not enough capacity. It would be worse without a grid design. Other issues are overcapacity roads, non-synced and non-actuated signals, and aging infrastructure. A crap ton of Manhattan's signals still use EM controllers meaning they aren't smart enough to handle this amount of traffic.

>>902224
did they do this on purpose so people wouldn't drive in london?
>>902223
I've seen a few here in canada but they're never in a major city and if they are they will feature a huge interchange. This seems like chaos.

>>902226
Lol no they did this because London is 2000 years old and has developed incrementally.

They instituted a congestion charge of £11.50 per day to dissuade people from driving.

>>902226
The city pre-dates cars by quite a long time, ya dingus.
Some of those roads only exist so that some dead noble could have a clear view of certain landmarks from a certain park.

>>902227
>live in london
>get charged to drive to work
>get charged to renew my TV license when I get home
>police bust down my door and sweep my house for weapons, finding and confiscating a bicycle wheel, a cricket bat, and all of my kitchen knives

god save the queen

>>902668
>bumping a thread to post low quality b8
Fuck off.

>>902669
it's not bait if all of these things actually happen

>>902670
>>>/b/ is that way.

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Get rid of low density residential areas

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Just admit it.
North America = Grid Master Race

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>>902744
>the "city" of Scarborough

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>>902744
As far as the early 1900 and before city centers go, then you invented cul-de-sac suburbs.

Because it's much worse than the whatever it tries to emulate. See, there are hardly any dead ends at the left column of your picture. The cities may lack consistency but it doesn't mean they lack structure.

That said, New York is in the league of it's own. Pity automobile was invented and the originally ridiculously spacious streets ended up insufficient.

>>902674
>buildings over 5 stories

Nah senpai.

>>902831
>actually believing that video
keked senpai

>>902674
Hell is on earth, and we have built it ourselves.

>>902885
It's actually a nice place from the anons that have lived there have said

>>901966
Isn't this a modest mouse album?
>Issac comfirmed for browsing /n/

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>>902755
I nuked it.

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>fuck it, lets just built half the town sideways

>>903125
>Mixing unit systems
Someone should EMP their servers, unless they study the SI Brochure more diligently.

>>902084
Naples

>>903194
You're not wrong, pal. It's sickening.

>>901989
shit is straight out of sim city 2000

>>903375
Sim City is misleading transit problems (washing out parking lots, spreading out traffic...)

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>>903398
we sim city now?

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>>901947
holy shit that non permeability. It's like they don't want anyone to walk anywhere

related, I think everyone in /n/ should read the death and life of american cities. absolutely relevant to transportation and transit

>>905112
Looks reasonably permeable to me - no large cul-de-sacs.

>>905124
>reasonably permeable
Not even close - every single trip in that development, unless you were visiting a neighbor in the same ring and quadrant, requires traveling out to one of those two arterial roads. And none of those ring streets offer timely alternatives to the arterials. It's telling that, even in a relatively dense, space-efficient residential suburb, the schools in the center need giant parking lots - parents don't like their kids walking to school on busy roadways.

>>902044
I live in Slovakia, majored in city planning. That is indeed the average village layout here - thin and elongated strips of parcels next to each other with houses next to the common road and barns in the back. This way it was easier to let livestock out to the pastures in the morning and back in the evening. Bigger villages branch out perpendicular to the main road if not restricted by terrain and so the overall road surface is really small which is good for maintenance and money tied to it and you are sure to never walk far to the bus stop. However it also has a disadvantage of having essentially all of the traffic pass through there. No big deal in early 20th century, but in some places of the country motorway infrastructure is underdeveloped and lorries put a lot of stress on the road. There have even been some documented cases of structural integrity issues on houses next to the road in mountain passes where all heavy traffic converges into what is basically a country road.

On topic I would like to say that organic growth is the best.

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>>905132
Now what, fgt

>>905136
You cut back on funding you idiot.

>>902064
>Come on, you hand picked probably the best example of poor planning.
The problem with urban planning is that a lot of people think it's a politically-correct way to force *others* to live in circumstances that the others don't like.

Some people talk of sprawl as if it's some evil plan, or a horrible mistake--and it isn't either. It's called "people making their own choices".
Normally, when you have sprawl, the reason that it happened was because 1) developers built it, because 2) their research showed that it was what most prospective home-buyers wanted.

In the US in ~2000 there was a housing boom, so a lot of odd stuff got built (and defaulted on). That doesn't disprove the viability of the entire phenomenon of urban expansion however.

>>901989
>All we build are prisons of sadness.
If paying customers choose sprawl, why would you call it a prison? They set their own priorities and made their own choice.
Isn't prison where *somebody else* decides where you get to live?

>>905153
The most obedient slave is the one who believes he is free.

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>>905153
What you say is true: the market/consumers did demand sprawl, particularly in the postwar era. However, the development of towns and cities has never been strictly market driven:

1. On the supply side, the demand and availability of suburban tract housing has long been promoted and shaped by government policies, not just consumer preference (it's worth noting that for over 30 years the FHA used redlining policies to protect racial segregation). And several decades into the surburban experiment, the fact that so much land has been devoted to single family housing isolated from workplaces now imposes real limitations on consumer choice.

2. It's ideal for people to choose how and where they want to live, but when neighborhoods and cities are laid out there's a strong public interest in how land use effects the entire community of a place, not just individual homeowners for two basic reasons:
-After private developers finance initial construction, the roads, pipes, sewers, etc. become the responsibility of the city, and must be maintained with taxpayer money.
-Like a factory dumping toxic waste into a river, a badly planned neighborhood can harm a broader community. Sprawling suburbia in particular has multiple pernicious effects including the near requirement that residents add the price of cars and long commutes to their cost of living, detrimental impacts to public health, restrictions on the freedom of movement to anyone not inside a motor vehicle, and increased pollution from inefficient homes and transportation.

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>>903125

Saw this thread on the front page and came here to post exactly this. /k/eep doing the lords work!

>>905153
>>905189

Not to mention the fact that antiquated zoning laws basically restrict denser housing or mixed use communities, pretty much forcing governments to pick up the bill with roads and transportation. The second and third generations of suburban construction were far from market driven

Planning around the automobile and allocating public funds to the construction of roads and supporting low density subdivisions is one of the greatest tragedies of misallocated resources in North American history

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>>905193
>>903125
Pre-amalgamation was best Toronto

>>905201
>having 50 different councils is a great idea
This is what Torontards actually think.

>>905201
Do it once, do it right.
>Dong Feng-5

>>905223
>implying Toronto is better off now then it was before amalgamation

This city literally can't work togeather. City Council is a disaster, the TDSB is a disaster. We literally tried to take 6 different cities that have their own way of doing things, and tried to force them together and look how that turned out. At least back during pre amalgamation we could focus on our own local problems without some dumb fuck from the other end of the city sticking their nose into business it doesn't belong.

While where at it hows about we merge all of Peel into a single city, all of York into a single city and Durham as well, because it clearly worked out well for Toronto.

>>905189
Taxes also must remain high, to maintain services at an acceptable level. This falls on the shoulders of local governments and residents.

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>>905272
Forgot pic.

>>905276
It's thanks to these suburbanites in our city that we get disasters like the scarb subway and the gardiner hybrid. It kills me that all those LRT's were cancelled the day Ford took office

>>905189
>-Like a factory dumping toxic waste into a river, a badly planned neighborhood can harm a broader community.
If annexing sprawl is so bad for cities, then why do they keep on doing it?

>>905388
Mortal fear of losing tax base.

>>902223
five way intersections are generally where rail line rights-of-way have been converted to streets. and here in chicago they fucking suck.

>>905201
>mfw my house is barely missed

phew

>>905280
>>905201
>>903125
>tfw my house was barely missed every single time

>>901989
My family lives out there

>>902670
SHITPOST
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>>905112
Isn't it somewhat ironic that Jacobs sort of lured the middle-class back into the inner-city despite the fact she was advocating for the preservation of dense urban areas for the working class?

>>902006
>Grids are objectively the most efficient.
Not necessarily true. Grids usually add to the amount of distance you have to travel to get somewhere, by comparison with a model with a hub, and radial and circumferential routes. They also tend to not form local nodes that can be developed into subordinate centers; the burbs are naturally dead because they keep everything at about the same density.

>>902885
Hong Kong is actually a great place.
Being one of the thousands clustered together in identical apartment buildings seems dehumanizing and forces you to confront your irrelevance, but when you realize that you're irrelevant no matter where you live it becomes a bit more palatable.

>>905685
>Being one of the thousands clustered together in identical apartment buildings
How is this any different to tract suburbs? Not everyone gets to build their own special little house.

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>>905685
Hong Kong is also extremely homogenous with similar cultural and social values.

Brazilian favelas also have thousands of people clustered together and living conditions there also force you to confront your irrelevance. The difference there is that in those places you get to confront your irrelevance via a brutal, violent death. Is this somehow an ideal or desirable situation for you?

>>905717
>>905696
>samefagging to derail a thread
>on /n/
jfc just do that on >>/pol/

>>905666
The upside of this is that my working class parents now live in a million dollar home

>>905722
That wasn't even me, my man.

So aside from that wrong opinion that you attempted to shut down the discussion with, can you answer the question? Is a favela a desirable housing arrangement to you? It certainly would appear to meet the criteria of a "livable" environment as posted in this thread.

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>>905728
>obvious strawman
>I-I wasn't trying to be an ebin shitboster
Look at all these people being clustered together which are being forced to realize their irrelevancy!

>>905729
So you feel that any living arrangement will force people to realize their irrelevancy? So why force people into miserable, cramped conditions if it's all the same to you?

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>>905729

>>905729

So comfy. I wish I lived in a place like this.

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Obviously grid.

Thanks US architect.

>>902140
The person who answered the question cited other sources you know

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I like these irregular layouts of old towns. With curving roads bending in all directions. It's probably not super efficient but charming.

>>906162
>Toronto
>No snow

>>906162
This is Sapporo in Japan. What you see is a park. In general this city is not a strict grid.

>>907860
It's super efficient if you're not trying to drive everywhere. The nice thing about medieval towns is that they were built on a human scale, with density high enough that the city could function without cars.

Rome in the 2nd century had a population of over a million, but you could still walk it end to end in under an hour. Good luck doing that in minneapolis

>>903131
>>903131
Is that... fucking Brantford ontario? Fuck I can see my mom's house.

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Melbourne, particularly the inner north and east (fitzroy, carlton, parkville, clifton hill, even east melbourne and richmond) is near perfect lay out. Cheers to the john batman and the hoddle grid

>>905112
this to be desu senpai family

>>901947
the best designs of cities are naturally occurring or grids. Humans should build their own environment and not autistic people like you who like circles, bikes, and trains.

>>902107
stop being autistic

>>901948
Unfortunate me has been in more than a few shithole ghetto barrio slums etc.

That seems like a nice place in comparison.

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>>905696
>>905728
Favelas has a simple explanation called 149% yearly inflation rate.

It was the only option to thousands of people living on the streets on each city