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The Power and Pleasure of Grids — Human Transit
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The professional blog of public transit consultant Jarrett Walker. The Power and Pleasure of Grids. February 23, 2010. Why do transit planners love grids? Now and then you’ll even hear one muttering about “grid integrity” or “completing the grid.” What are they talking about? Well, you already know. If your city street network is a grid, the path is often exactly the same way you’d make the trip if you were driving. For this trip to be attractive, all the services have to be very frequent, so t...Note th...
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3D images | Fused Grid
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2 thoughts on “3D images”. September 30, 2009 at 9:42 pm. October 1, 2009 at 6:01 pm. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *. A Contemporary Urban Pattern. The Permeable Block Rediscovering the Alley Passage. A mature Fused Grid plan in Manhattan, NY. Book review: Cities and Forms. Church Time : Renovation and Renewal. The Transformative Power of Energy. Existing City Network Adaptation. Proudly powered by WordPress.
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The Permeable Block – Rediscovering the Alley Passage | Fused Grid
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The Permeable Block Rediscovering the Alley Passage. March 2, 2015. Street in Manhattan a virtual wall of buildings packed together a sign on a tall, elegant doorway announces something unexpected: Public Access to 56. New York and Florence through the block alleys. First, land in earlier cities was at a premium: everyone wanted to enjoy the city’s advantages but its size was confined by the walking distance limit; up to about a mile across (20 minute of. New York and Siena through the block passage.
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Portland’s Portal of Opportunity – The Multimodal Grid | Fused Grid
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Portland’s Portal of Opportunity – The Multimodal Grid. May 5, 2011. The earlier article noted that Portland’s praised intersection (140 per km. And street density comes at a heavy cost. It means reduced developable land, higher infrastructure cost, higher lifecycle costs, reduced traffic flow and safety, reduced rainwater permeability and fewer opportunities for public open space. Figure 1. The Portland Grid and Ladd’s Addition layouts same scale. The ushers of opportunity. In an era of horse, cart and ...
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The Importance of Being Urban | Fused Grid
http://blog.fusedgrid.ca/2010/05/25/the-importance-of-being-urban
The Importance of Being Urban. May 25, 2010. City planning has yet to achieve the status of a theory, most likely because. The criterionfor the scientific status of a theory is its falsifiability, or refutability or testability. Laboured on Ekistics, his treatise on the. Of human settlements, only to remain at the margins of planning discourse, which currently overflows with the certainty and finality of a complete theory . The makings of an ideology. Century ancestors who knew best . Simplified, but...
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A mature Fused Grid plan in Manhattan, NY | Fused Grid
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A mature Fused Grid plan in Manhattan, NY. May 1, 2014. 8212;————————-. The Stuyvesant layout transforms the old grid into a Fused Grid. For example, the stone-text does not explain why certain places have only straight streets and square blocks, as Manhattan does, and others have hardly any, like the center of Boston or Istanbul. Nor does it reveal why perfectly straight streets in the older parts of certain cities morph into curvaceous shapes in their newer extensions at the edge. Street and east of 1.
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Presentation | Fused Grid
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An Urban Pattern for Quality Of Life. 8211; The Fused Grid. This presentation traces the elements of a new planning idea – the Fused Grid. Neighbourhood and district model – through the lenses of research on health, safety and well-being. It also responds to the questions: would it work? The presentation is fully referenced with the original sources. The cited research shows that the Fused Grid outperforms known and extensively used neighbourhood network patterns in all key criteria. A PhD thesis . The F...
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Housing Trends | Fused Grid
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Category Archives: Housing Trends. Discusses current and future housing issues for socio-demographic groups. November 7, 2013. Our house types lexicon includes standard, familiar species such as single detached, semidetached, townhouses, walk-ups and apartments. Each of these carries a set of images, an identity, and with it, deeply rooted feelings. House, for example, spontaneously evokes privacy, independence, tranquility, a garden, and, frequently, a happy family and wealth. June 16, 2013. This is not...
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Living on easy streets? | betterfredericton
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Better ideas for a better Fredericton. About Better Fredericton: a conversation about making our city better. Living on easy streets? Monday, 23 January 2012. Source: Atlas of York County, New Brunswick, 1878. For centuries, Frederictonians grew up, played, commuted and shopped along grid streets like these. They would’ve been pretty easy to remember what was where, and to give directions. Getting around traffic jams (horse and buggy accidents? Source: Atlas of York County, New Brunswick, 1878. 7 300 veh...
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fanis.grammenos | Fused Grid
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All posts by fanis.grammenos. The Permeable Block Rediscovering the Alley Passage. March 2, 2015. Street in Manhattan a virtual wall of buildings packed together a sign on a tall, elegant doorway announces something unexpected: Public Access to 56. New York and Florence through the block alleys. First, land in earlier cities was at a premium: everyone wanted to enjoy the city’s advantages but its size was confined by the walking distance limit; up to about a mile across (20 minute of. Waiting for redevel...
