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Street network patterns reveal global trend towards increasing urban sprawl

Green Car Congress

New research from McGill University and the University of California, Santa Cruz has found that the local streets of the world’s cities are becoming less connected, a global trend that is driving urban sprawl and discouraging the use of public transportation. SNDi for streets added years 2000 to 2014. Barrington-Leigh and Millard-Ball.

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Flight Simulator Gave Birth to 3D Video-Game Graphics

Cars That Think

It was when microprocessors became available that I think the lightbulb went off for Bruce that said, Hey, if I put this idea I’ve got for a flight simulator onto cheaper computers, and get that to work, there’s a market for that.” It included a bird’s-eye perspective of locales like Machu Picchu, in Peru.

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