100 Cities from most ordered streets to most disordered. Dublin with it’s grand auld mess showing 3rd row at the bottom.
100 Cities from most ordered streets to most disordered. Dublin with it’s grand auld mess showing 3rd row at the bottom.
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Source – [https://appliednetsci.springeropen.com/articles/10.1007/s41109-019-0189-1](https://appliednetsci.springeropen.com/articles/10.1007/s41109-019-0189-1)
Lived in the states for a while and some neighbourhoods have streets going alphabetical in one direction and numerical in the other. It’s like playing battleship.
“Where do you live?”
“Oh I’m at the corner of B.11”
Suck it Pyongyang!
8th row, 5th from the left for the people as confused as me by OPs incorrect directions
The cities at the top are so monotonous and lifeless. There’s a reason that they’re all American. They haven’t grown for millennia with different districts showing their age.
I don’t see this as a problem. Grid citys can be boring as fuck.
I’m from Limerick and grew up with the Newtown Pery 18th century Georgian blocks (built same time as U.S. east coast cities). So I found all other Irish towns and cities, including Dublin – especially Dublin, hard to learn.
There’s a couple down the bottom that confuse me. Charlotte, presuming this is the one in the US, and Singapore, being that Singapore it’s basically a planned country run by de facto dictator for so long, I thought it would be a planned grid city tbh.
How in the fuck is Prague more organised. Been there 10 times and always get lost walking those alleys
Who gives a damn? We live in a historic city with random street directions. The ones near the top are young cities with no history
Pretty sure most of the cities on the bottom 3 rows are older and develop more over the years than the top.
I actually find it easier to navigate around the cities that are less grid like, I remember the directions better. With the grid cities I tend to just wonder in circles as everything is very similar.
This looks like a load of Sharingans
If you’re interested in city planning there’s a good youtube channel called ‘not just bikes’. He explains why american cities are so terribly planned and basically car centric.
Well this explains why all roads lead to Rome
Shocker. Cities establishes a few hundred years ago are more grid based than cities that have developed over thousands of years.
“Ordered” meaning they are built to a grid. If you like a grid, I guess it is ordered. Also remember the most ordered cities were built recently and could plan like that. Cities list Dublin grew organically.
Can’t stand planned cities. The grid layout in American cities is dull and monotonous. There’s no random alleyways to another road, no hidden spots, no winding mysterious pathways, no old and interesting establishment tucked away in a dark corner, literally zero character.
All hail the mess.
This is a good thing. Planned grid cities are ugly and boring.
Fifth column across and Third row “up from the bottom” if that helps
Who would have thought a city founded by the Vikings in the 10th century wouldn’t adhere to the same north-south aligned grid pattern of modern cities established in recent centuries
Surprised Singapore is bottom row tbh. Their whole deal is order and cleanliness
Same for Irish cities/towns, and Dublin postcodes:
https://gisforthought.com/ireland-and-dublin-street-orientations/
As someone who grew up near Toronto I’d way rather have the chaotic sprawl of Dublin. Toronto’s streets are soul sucking
Castle towns often deliberately created winding roads to make attack more difficult and easier to defend
And Boston on the same row. No wonder I felt so comfortable in Dublin