Gallery: Complex City Grids Visualized With Day-Glo Maps
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Steve Von Worley's most recent data visualization looks at the orientation of city streets. Here is NYC's massive grid.
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Each color represents the orientation that the streets run according to cardinal directions. Here: San Francisco.
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Roads at right angles to each other have the same color, as seen in this visualization of Washington D.C.
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Paris' arrondissements make the city far less gridded than New York City. Except if you look at the cemeteries.
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San Francisco is split up into chunks of different-colored grids. This is thanks to its hilly topography and complex urban history.
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Chicago is one massive grid that adheres to cardinal directions.
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London's streets, like those of many cities in Europe, are a messy tangle of roads that were built up organically over time.
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Berlin is built around it central district and the Spree River. You can see a few main arteries running through the city.
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Here is Boston with its various squares.
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Los Angeles is predominately gridded, running north-south
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Tokyo's chaotic layout.
