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.
You right, 100 meters isn’t reasonable. I’ve had about 3h of sleep in the last 48 or so, so my brain is a bit mush. 😆
sib??? get some sleep dawg
Sib?
Yeah I slept well this night. No worries. 😊
tbf katy freeway is over 100m wide in some parts. but hopefully that is rare, and probably is ‘unreasonable’.
Those dudes need some more trains over there.
Fun facts: The Katy Freeway goes to Katy, Texas, and Katy, Texas is a southern terminus of the Katy Railroad (formally the Missouri, Kansas and Texas railroad, or “MKT”). The Katy was a major passenger railroad once upon a time.
So in a way, the freeway is helping motorists get to the trains, just trains that are in the past.
That’s a freeway though, I suppose.