What is the best shape of a city? Modelling effect of urban form on distance

What is the best shape of a city? Modelling effect of urban form on distance(journals.sagepub.com)

10 points by rustoo 2 days ago | 6 comments

irickt 22 minutes ago |

Here's a preprint from 2025: https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00100v1

irickt 11 minutes ago | |

And an explainer/simulator here: https://vis.csh.ac.at/cities-morphology/#/

Without getting behind the paywall, the abstract says that how far you have to travel determines how far you have to travel??

welcome_dragon 1 hour ago | |

I was going to dismiss this and then I read the whole abstract and that is, pretty much what it says. Oh but I guess it also says they came up with a model for how far apart things are determining how far you have to travel to get there

Muromec 1 hour ago | |

Every 60 seconds a minute passes

welcome_dragon 57 minutes ago | | |

Well stop clapping you stupid git

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