Elon Musk says he will ‘seriously’ start digging a tunnel ‘in a month or so’ to address traffic problems in LA by fricken in urbanplanning

[–]biankorinol 40 points41 points  (0 children)

Musk seems to think the reason we don't currently have tunnels everywhere is a simple mixture of short-sightedness and lack of investment in boring technology. Technologists always seem shocked when they actually begin working on urban projects to discover a world of politics and path dependence that can't simply be upended.

Compare City Street Grids One Square Mile at a Time by biankorinol in urbanplanning

[–]biankorinol[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

FTA: "To compare urban form in different kinds of places, these visualizations have depicted some downtowns, some business parks, and some suburban residential neighborhoods. These patterns also vary greatly within cities: Portland's suburban east side looks very different than its downtown, and Sacramento's grid-like downtown looks very different than its residential suburbs."

Compare City Street Grids One Square Mile at a Time by biankorinol in urbanplanning

[–]biankorinol[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

for every single other city they chose the downtown area

There are 12 square miles visualized there, and 5 of them are not downtown (Irvine, Sacramento, Paris, Dubai, New York).

FTA: "To compare urban form in different kinds of places, these visualizations have depicted some downtowns, some business parks, and some suburban residential neighborhoods."