Sentences with phrase «urban street grids»

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Holloway, a former editor at SA, uses the little - known story of the man behind Manhattan's street grid to talk about larger issues surrounding urban planning and the way humans «tame» the natural world.

Anderson can't help but turn the open - air, urban setting into yet another deathtrap tunnel system, and CGI aerial shots dot Pompeii's opening stretch, showing the complex grid of roads, narrow streets, and aqueducts which make up a Roman city — and through which, of course, the characters will eventually have to escape.

The outgoing Acadia could feel ponderous and frankly too big on narrow country roads or tightly gridded urban streets, but the new model comes across as significantly easier to manage and friendlier to drive.

Born in Los Angeles, Mark Bradford collages pieces of detritus — found billboards, logos, hairdresser's endpapers — scavenged from the streets of southern California, which together snap into abstracted urban grid paintings and other evocative compositions.

Each piece is a response to the concept of the urban grid — the framework of streets, buildings, paving stones and indeed tiles, that shapes the cities around us — and the ways in which these grids are transformed by the movement of people over time.

The streets of Manhattan form the most famous urban grid in the world — we type in grid - shaped keyboard keys, we digest our digital media through tiny pixellated grids, and play the lottery filling numbers in small grids.

By their definition, green cities must be urban — with walkable streets, connected street grids and compact mixed - use development served by transit, plus strategically located parks and green space.

[T] hat cities with more rigid grid - like street patterns (that is, a higher local order) tended to display a higher temperature difference between their urban and rural areas.