How do cities decide where roads and parks go?
Drawing the Future
How do cities decide where roads and parks go?
Someone once had to look at flat, empty land and decide: road here, park there, houses over there. Before any city existed, someone drew the first lines on a map. How did they know where everything should go?
The very first thing city planners think about is water. Rivers give people drinking water, so early cities grew up right beside them. The river decides where the center of town goes — everything else has to work around it.
