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.
One cited paper is from 1889, predating this whole graphics style by about a century. The graphics are probably what an AI made as a response to “illustrate this text passage” or “redraw this figure as vectors”. (Yes, this one probably draws vectors, otherwise the font families would be inconsistent within images, not just between them)