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Say it is a cross shape instead with one interchange/ hub in the middle. Now everywhere is like half as far away as before. Continue adding spokes. Now we're
by cma 4y ago
Say it is a cross shape instead with one interchange/ hub in the middle. Now everywhere is like half as far away as before. Continue adding spokes. Now we're back to a filled circle with a central core more like traditional cities and I bet buildings would end up much taller in the core.
- s1artibartfast 4y agoI get that. Alone and maximizes the distance between any two random points. A circle minimizes the distance between any two random points. However, it gets more interesting if you're not flying like a bird between the two points. If you are taking metro rail, you care about your distance to a stop which you will walk plus the travel time that you will ride, and number of transfers. As you see, it becomes a lot more complicated. You would have to put down a lot more rail so that every person in a circle is within 200 M of a rail line. A line 170km by 200m wide has an area of 34km^2. This equals a circle with a diameter of 6.6km. it would take 694km of rail to fill that circle with a grid so that no point is further than 100m from the lines. The same holds true for your power, water and sewage infrastructure.
- magicalist 4y ago> it would take 694km of rail to fill that circle with a grid so that no point is further than 100m from the lines. Rail stations wouldn't be 200m apart, though, so maximum distance to the lines is too simplistic a measure to use for this.
- s1artibartfast 4y agoIt is probably more applicable for water mains and other infrastructure, but it was just an example of the concept.