The History Of Settlements Inwards Hungary

Partly inspired past times the New York Times' pop Map of Every Building inwards America the Atlo information visualization squad decided to undertake a detailed exam of the street patterns of urban settlements inwards Hungary. In Roads, Buildings, Networks Alto looks at the unlike types of short town morphology together with the history of urban increment together with planning inwards the country.

Roads, Buildings, Networks includes an interactive map which shows alone the outlines of edifice footprints together with roads. The information for this map comes from OpenStreetMap. Unfortunately the edifice footprint information for Republic of Hungary on OSM tin live on a picayune patchy, soundless the Atlo map does render an interesting sentiment of the street patterns of Hungary's urban settlements.

Accompanying the interactive map is a really detailed explanation of how terrain, hydrography, history together with other factors hit got helped shape Hungary's unlike urban environments. Through this exploration of short town morphology Atlo identifies distinct forms. These include the spherical street patterns of the historic mining towns together with the regular chessboard-like street patterns which resulted from the urban planning which began inwards the 17th century,