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Are there any cities which are a series of concentric urban rings with parkland between them?
by cylinder 8y ago
Are there any cities which are a series of concentric urban rings with parkland between them?
- silvester23 8y agoNot exactly what you are looking for and I'm sure there are better examples that I don't know of, but Cologne is made up of concentric rings and at least has one park ring. https://www.google.com/maps/@50.9363443,6.9470178,14z https://www.google.com/maps/@50.9363443,6.9470178,14z
- adjkant 8y agoAmsterdam has this but with canals not parks. Not quite the same but a bit interesting. https://www.google.com/maps/@52.3676938,4.8960709,13.63z https://www.google.com/maps/@52.3676938,4.8960709,13.63z
- joshuakarjala 8y agocopenhagen to some extent https://goo.gl/maps/BbbNpvT2BPo https://goo.gl/maps/BbbNpvT2BPo The first "park ring" is essentially the old city walls and moat
- doombolt 8y agoMoscow to some extent, and traffic is disaster. Rings are especially jam-prone.
- nine_k 8y agoMoscow had plans for "chordal" roads that would connect radial roads in a faster way than concentric-ring roads do. But the land allocated for these roads was all built upon in 1990s, so the traffic problem stays. As in e.g. NYC, subway in Moscow is generally a faster commute than a car, if there's a station where you need to go. Unfortunately, Moscow subway is also concentric rings + radial lines mostly, and has the same problem of getting somewhere "diagonally" without hitting the crowded central hub stations. Moscow is still pretty walkable, compared to many US cities, with sidewalks, crossings, etc. Though in areas built past ~1960 you have to be ready to walk for significant distances.
- dukoid 8y agoLondon (for instance) has a green belt: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Green_Belt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Green_Belt Wouldn't parkland arranged in spokes be better -- with bike lanes for commuting to the center?