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Street network patterns reveal global trend towards increasing urban sprawl

Green Car Congress

SNDi for streets added years 2000 to 2014. In contrast to the corrective trend observed in the United States, where streets have become more connected since the late 20 th century, we find that most of the world is building ever-more disconnected “street-network sprawl.” Barrington-Leigh and Millard-Ball.

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Flight Simulator Gave Birth to 3D Video-Game Graphics

Cars That Think

This gave subLogic a cheat sheet to build on. The hard work came to fruition in Flight Simulator 2000 , which reached a technical milestone: It mapped the entire planet in 1-kilometer blocks. In retrospect, ESP feels like a predecessor to modern efforts to build “digital twins” to simulate and replicate real-world environments.

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