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.
Am I just not comprehending that first image? Are they saying that streets are 1km wide? And if we use the scale key, are they saying the average car is 5m wide?
The numbers are likely ai bullshit. The original image is from a published paper that didn’t have numbers on the graphic