Modern urban planning literature is filled with references to grid street patterns and their alleged superiority to the cul de sac–a loop or “dead-end street” pattern typical of modern suburban ...
One of the defining characteristics of sprawl is a branching street pattern — one in which cul-de-sacs feed residential streets, which feed local arteries, which feed thoroughfares, which ultimately ...
Natural environments are represented by local maps of grid cells and place cells that are stitched together. The manner by which transitions between map fragments are generated is unknown. We recorded ...