{"id":2473,"date":"2012-05-06T04:37:53","date_gmt":"2012-05-06T04:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monochromist.com\/2012\/05\/06\/purestform-how-street-networks-evolve-as-cities\/"},"modified":"2017-07-10T00:00:50","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T00:00:50","slug":"purestform-how-street-networks-evolve-as-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/2012\/05\/06\/purestform-how-street-networks-evolve-as-cities\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/purestform.tumblr.com\/post\/21325647561\/how-street-networks-evolve-as-cities-grow-before\">purestform<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>How Street Networks Evolve as Cities Grow<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Before urban planning, street patterns emerged organically. Understanding the fundamental and man-made forces behind the growth of streetscapes could help guide the development of today\u2019s cities.<\/p>\n<p>Urban planners believe that with regulations we can control the growth of cities. The question is, how can we control a thing if we don\u2019t really know how it behaves? Historically, a lot of analyses have been done by comparing two maps on a qualitative basis. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/srep\/2012\/120301\/srep00296\/full\/srep00296.html?WT.ec_id=SREP-20120306\">Elementary processes governing the evolution of road networks<\/a><\/strong> is the first quantitative analysis of how unplanned street networks evolve over time. This work marks the first time anyone has looked at how those properties change over time.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article.cfm?id=grid-unlocked-how-street\">Scientific American<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>purestform: How Street Networks Evolve as Cities Grow Before urban planning, street patterns emerged organically. Understanding the fundamental and man-made forces behind the growth of streetscapes could help guide the development of today\u2019s cities. Urban planners believe that with regulations we can control the growth of cities. The question is, how can we control a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-video_graphics","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5sGHy-DT","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1312,"url":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/2013\/07\/21\/ryanpanos-roadshow-by-hubert-blanz-roadshow-is\/","url_meta":{"origin":2473,"position":0},"title":"ryanpanos: Roadshow by Hubert Blanz\u2026","author":"monochromist","date":"July 21, 2013","format":"gallery","excerpt":"ryanpanos: Roadshow by Hubert Blanz Roadshow is a series of images formed and built up from the digital recordings of pre-existing freeways networks, roads, bridges, and intersections. 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