{"id":8570,"date":"2012-05-22T12:00:25","date_gmt":"2012-05-22T16:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingottawa.ca\/?p=8570"},"modified":"2013-01-21T09:26:25","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T14:26:25","slug":"urban-planet-subway-system-patterns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/2012\/05\/22\/urban-planet-subway-system-patterns\/","title":{"rendered":"Urban Planet: Subway System Patterns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/?attachment_id=30151\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-30151\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Moscow-Metro-Map\" src=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Moscow-Metro-Map.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"330\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/?attachment_id=25153\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-25153\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"feature-urban-planet\" src=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/feature-urban-planet.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"63\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Urban Planet is\u00a0a daily roundup of\u00a0\u00a0blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We\u2019ll be on the lookout for websites outside the country that approach themes related to urban experiences and issues.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Given the complexity and contentiousness of subway network design, it is tempting to think that there might be a science behind network development. An article published in the <em>Journal of the Royal Society Interface<\/em> looks at hundreds of subway systems worldwide and defines some key patterns that the systems share. The paper suggests that networks can be divided into a core and branches, with the core often lying beneath the city\u2019s center and the branches extending outwards. Branches tend to be about twice as long as the width of the core and roughly 20 percent of the stations in the core link two or more lines. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article.cfm?id=how-subway-networks-evolve\">Scientific American<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><em>Image from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fatpandaproductions.com\/2009\/09\/moscow-metro-map\/\">Fat Panda Productions<\/a><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><\/em><em>For more stories from around the planet, check out Spacing on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Spacing\/111174192229238\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/Spacing\">Twitter<\/a>.\u00a0 Do you have an Urban Planet worthy article you&#8217;d like to share? Send the link to\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:urbanplanet@spacing.ca\">urbanplanet@spacing.ca<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Urban Planet is\u00a0a daily roundup of\u00a0\u00a0blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We\u2019ll be on the lookout for websites outside the country that approach themes related to urban experiences and issues. Given the complexity and contentiousness of subway network design, it is tempting to think that there might be a science behind<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/2012\/05\/22\/urban-planet-subway-system-patterns\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Urban Planet: Subway System Patterns&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4081,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5302],"tags":[882,1373,4949,1275,4950,1731,550],"class_list":["post-8570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features","tag-facebook","tag-scientific-american","tag-subway-system-patterns-urban-planet","tag-subway-systems","tag-the-journal-of-the-royal-society-interface","tag-twitter","tag-urban-planet"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Urban Planet: Subway System Patterns - Spacing Ottawa<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/2012\/05\/22\/urban-planet-subway-system-patterns\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Urban Planet: Subway System Patterns - Spacing Ottawa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Urban Planet is\u00a0a daily roundup of\u00a0\u00a0blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. 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