Development doodle
Based on a satellite image of a tiny sample from Florida's sea of houses. I made many changes to the picture after cropping it, including removing some parts and adding much more color and some paint effect. I find it attractive as a colorful, painting-like doodle, but the houses look too tightly packed in for my taste, though of course people here have much more space than in many apartment buidlings.
After wandering through lots of satellite pictures of developed land in the U.S. I wondered if planners often chose neighborhood designs more because of how the layout looked on their prospective maps and less in consideration of how it would fit in with surrounding development and environment. Also, I've read the comment that some building designs and architectural styles may look fabulous, yet might not be very comfortable or useful to live in and ccould be hard to maintain (like the leaky roofs on many Frank Lloyd Wright houses). Some quite interesting looking development patterns (as seen from aircraft or satellite) are of roads and housing on flood plains and river deltas and beaches that probably get flooded repeatedly, places I've been happy not to live. Many obviously strongly disagree with me -- I've met several Floridians who say they love their beach house settings so much that they regard hurricanes as just a nuisance to be put up with.
Development doodle
Based on a satellite image of a tiny sample from Florida's sea of houses. I made many changes to the picture after cropping it, including removing some parts and adding much more color and some paint effect. I find it attractive as a colorful, painting-like doodle, but the houses look too tightly packed in for my taste, though of course people here have much more space than in many apartment buidlings.
After wandering through lots of satellite pictures of developed land in the U.S. I wondered if planners often chose neighborhood designs more because of how the layout looked on their prospective maps and less in consideration of how it would fit in with surrounding development and environment. Also, I've read the comment that some building designs and architectural styles may look fabulous, yet might not be very comfortable or useful to live in and ccould be hard to maintain (like the leaky roofs on many Frank Lloyd Wright houses). Some quite interesting looking development patterns (as seen from aircraft or satellite) are of roads and housing on flood plains and river deltas and beaches that probably get flooded repeatedly, places I've been happy not to live. Many obviously strongly disagree with me -- I've met several Floridians who say they love their beach house settings so much that they regard hurricanes as just a nuisance to be put up with.