In my Spatial Composition class, we read an excerpt from “Streets and City Patterns” by Allan Jacobs. The article compares the fabric of a city at the scale of one square mile. Some cities, like Venice, have narrow streets and many intersections. Newer cities, like Irvine, are spread out and deliberately avoid intersections. In general, it’s just fascinating to compare urban areas visually.
For the slideshow above, I took screengrabs from Google Maps of cities I thought would be interesting to compare. To be fair, each picture has the Google-determined city center in it. Each picture is roughly 2500 square feet.
