Highway all around the city, noise pollutionĪt last, don’t forget about African outskirts villages layout.Īfrican villages are mostly dirt everywhere with narrow dirt roads, no traffic congestion and noise pollution at all.However in the city center, the road layout is almost the same like European city layout but with messy local roads connecting to messy collectors and arterials in a specific angle. Because of higher population density, collector roads usually look like arterial roads. Welcome to Asia, where Europe meets America.Īsian city layout always contains of semi-grid looking residential zones everywhere and a few connections connecting to the collector roads. More green spaces available in the cityĬities that are Utilizing European Layout.Shorter routes for vehicles in some cases.Collector roads are simply straight all over the city and connects to the straight arterials. Some parts are looking like grids but not exactly grids. Dead end roads are quite often to see in some part of a European city, mostly are cul-de-sacs. Now we’re heading to Europe, it really just a mess.Įuropean city layout usually contains of messy-built local roads that simply connected to the collector roads in any angle. Cause traffic problems if too many high density RC aroundĬities that are Utilizing American Layoutīelow are cities that are using this layout (click on the link to Google Earth to take inspiration):.Cause gridlocks in smaller grids (sometimes).Too many junctions everywhere, slows down traffic.Driver friendly, not pedestrian and cyclist friendly.Lower cost with more zoning tax income (sometimes).More organized zoning for each plot of land.Better public transport coverage and accessibility.

Provides easy and orderly layout for services.Most of the arterial roads are parallel to the collectors, but there’re some that go across all the grids at a different angle, or just follow the terrain or shoreline. They’re simple, just as you thought.Īmerican grid contains of grid-looking local roads with each ends connected to the collector road border. Let’s start with the Great American Grids.

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