Sublime

New Urbanism at its core promotes higher residential densities, a mix of residential and commercial land uses in close walking proximity, and a grid street pattern that promotes closer distances between residential and commercial destinations.22 Grid street patterns that have more intersections and smaller blocks also provide for multipurpose uses,

each land parcel on the landscape is characterized by its distance to market,

The US Urban System—Crime, Patents, and Incomes

In most urbanized areas, nonresidential space accounts for a third or more of the built environment (excluding rights-of-way and other public spaces)

(of cities) you can think of, including housing, transportation and congestion, industrial and professional composition and location, urban services, government expenditures and taxes, crime, pollution, quality of life, amenities, and more.

This naturally raises the question as to whether the dynamics and structure of cities and companies are the result of analogous optimization principles. What, if anything, is optimized in their multiple network systems? Are cities organized to maximize social interactions, or to optimize transport by minimizing mobility times, or are they ultimatel