My article looking at urban street network orientation, connectivity, spatial configuration, and entropy is now published! Blog summary and link to paper: geoffboeing.com/2019/09/urban-…

Here's how the streets orient in 100 cities around the world (THREAD): @appliednetsci Each city is represented by a polar histogram. Bar direction represents compass bearings of streets in that bin. Length represents relative frequency of streets with those bearings. Here they are again, re-sorted from most-ordered city (Chicago) to most-disordered (Charlotte):

I did a comparison of city street network orientations in major US cities, and now I've got a better sense of why I find Boston so difficult to navigate. Visualization uses Python, OSMnx, and @OpenStreetMap data.
geoffboeing.com/2018/07/compar… And woe to those trying to navigate the city of Charlotte.