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Answer by Anton Sherwood for What circumstances could lead to city layout...
Perhaps the city began as a cluster of compounds, some distance apart, and each of them grew as needed by adding buildings more or less evenly to its own perimeter. As the compounds then approach each...
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I'm sorry if anyone posted this idea before, there is just too much to read and I want to make sure such idea is out there.The rectangular shape makes our buildings simple yet quite effectively makes...
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Because the city is verticalI love the other answers on this post a lot, but since no one mentioned it, I thought this was a cool idea.If you want a city embedded in a cliffside to be walkable, one of...
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I love the sentient-bee-people idea, and here’s one for the mammals that might have tried to technologically copy them for a crystal city:“Among the primary crystal systems, the hexagonal system has...
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Answer by Nosajimiki for What circumstances could lead to city layout based...
Because Your City has Celtic OriginsMany answers have already brought up how circles can force a hex pattern, or how much tradition can influence things, but this combines both of these ideas into one....
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From the Centuriation of the Romans to Mansard roofs of Paris, city layouts and building design are often heavily influenced by surveying technologies, title law, and tax law.Perhaps the hex city...
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It's a city of beesWho says that the species of the denizens has to be human?If bees evolved to where they began to make cities, they might just use the hexagon shape, because that's what seems natural...
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Brief summary: solitude / social distancing, lack of external enemies, nomadism.According to Why are Most Buildings Rectangular (well worth reading), the trend from circular houses to rectangular...
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Answer by Pere for What circumstances could lead to city layout based on...
Hexagonal urban planning is not common but it has already been done:La Sentiu is a planned neighbourhood near Barcelona with roads in hexagonal directions. Blocks aren't exactly hexagonal but walking...
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Answer by Mahm00d for What circumstances could lead to city layout based on...
Maybe the hexagonal planning had nothing to do with the surface, but rather some subterranean phenomena, such as extreme seismic activities!They had to create a huge hexagonal structure under the...
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I think its fair to say people tend to do things long after the original rationale has ceased to exist (e.g. people in the UK drive on the left-hand side of the road because knights on horseback...
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Answer by pokep for What circumstances could lead to city layout based on...
Unstable Land SurfaceImagine that the ground itself expands and contracts slowly over time. This could be due to frost heave on an enormous scale, or the absorption and release of water over time. To...
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I've seen a hexagon-based city in a sci-fi story and I believe the reasoning was sound:The city was on the ocean, not on land. The "land" of the city was a collection of hexagonal platforms--basically...
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The city was planned, it did not grow, and its founders regarded hexagons as the mathematically superior form.Perhaps, historically, the hexagon was associated with the chief religion. This may or may...
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Answer by Ash for What circumstances could lead to city layout based on...
Optimal public transport accessibility for a zero-car city.A city designed from the ground up should be designed so that cars are unneeded:90% of your reasons to leave the home are serviced within a...
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What circumstances could lead to city layout based on hexagons?
Most modern planned cities are based on grid layouts. Historic cities are more organic on a macroscopic level, but buildings are still generally square-shaped leading to grid-based layouts on the...
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