Should Cities be Circles?

Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan, Iraq.

TATAKAE!!!

You should add Chengdu, China in the list. They make a complete circle city.

Attack on titan vibes

I live in a circular city, San Antonio.

Columbus circle in Manhattan nyc is the closest thing here

Inverness

Should cities be?

Canberra Australia

Connaught Place, New Delhi is a good example in India.

Bolivia's largest city is organized in rings.

The Seestadt Aspern, a large city development neighbourhood in the periphery of Vienna, but within city limits is designed based on a circular layout with a small lake in the centre. There is a lot to like about the Seestadt I think but the circular aspect is probably not having as much impact as planners might have thought but then maybe the dynamic is going to change when the area is somewhat complete. It is still only half finished. It does work however in a way that bascially all inhabitants of that area don't have that far to the lake and even though it is artificial, swimming is allowed so it is a real benefit to the neighbourhood.

Kingsport, TN. A garden city developed in early 1900s organized around traffic circles and boulevards with topographic constraints. City moto is "The Model City". That early development plan still dominates the center of the town.

bruh. Not a single word about circular Moscow

Calling Native Americans a prehistoric mound building culture is crazy

Goderich Ontario, Canada

Circlevillle Squaring Company: Aiming for what Archimedes failed to do

Mecca and Medina, Saudi Arabia

The Venus Project. lol.

Canberra. How did you miss Canberra?

Jumeira Village Circle is one of the most popular communities in central Dubai.

Bro didn't mention Moscow....

Inspired from the first hokage and madara uchiha

москва )

I recommend adjusting the circular city design a bit. Make it triangles instead. (I give a long explanation, you have been warned): With triangles you can keep adding triangular suburbs effectively forever AND, most importantly, you can set up metro lines under all the main roads that the triangle edge could be made of. This would result in a Soviet style triangle design metro like in Prague where it's implemented almost perfectly, with the exception of 1 of the 3 stations, the line to line metro transfers are incredibly efficient, the station platforms are beneath each other and so you can take an escalator up/down, straight to another lines platform in like 1.5 mins. The triangle design also has benefits even as you leave the city centre, you can run tram lines in the median of all the main roads of other triangles attached to the center one on the outskirts of the city centre providing coverage and interconnecting with the now radial metro lines, and when you get really far, trolleybuses can do the same. Feel free to provide counterarguments but as far as I'm concerned a triangle is the ultimate shape, basically for everything, including city design.

Goiania has some circles in it

ам а что на счет Москвы?

Moscow, Russia

Garden Cities of the Future is in Public domain...and easily found online for free....
CITIES SKYLINES HERE I COME!

I think you have lost a really good opportunity to talk about Moscow. It's clearly very circular. Roads are actually called "first circle", "second circle".... Also there are a lot of radial roads. And if you look at the metro map, the roundness of cit becomes even clearer.

spider city

Сanberra? Moscow? americans really know nothing outside their borders

Hi!!! traffic is horrible in Houston

I think that this guy is trying to create a philosopher stone

Hradec Králové, Czechia has a large ring road around it's centre.

SHOULD THEY BE "ROUND?"
YOU BET.... THE BENEFITS FAR OUTWEIGH "SQUARE" OR "RECTANGLE CITIES... AND THEY'RE MUCH MUCH MORE NATURAL FOR OUR DESIRE TO GET BACK TO COMMUNITY SERVICES AND PRODUCTS WITHIN WALKING DISTANCE!
NO.... WE HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THE EVIL "15 MINUTE CITIES"... WE BELIEVE IN OUR CONSTITUTION AND BILL OF RIGHTS AND WE DON'T "TRACK" OUR FELLOW CITIZENS... WE RESPECT EVERYONE'S PRIVACY!
WE'VE ALREADY DESIGNED SOME OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL "ROUND" CITIES ON THE PLANET AND WE'RE WORKING DILIGENTLY ON SECURING FINANCING!!
COMING SOON TO A CITY NEAR YOU!!!

Detroit is not a circle city in the sense described in the video, but.

Downtown there is a distorted oval (Campus Martius) and a bisected half-circle (Grand Circus). A lot of downtown streets and alleyways are either concentric half-circles, concentric arc segments or radial lines from Grand Circus

Fort and Michigan Ave are radials from Campus Martius, Woodward is also a radial of Campus Martius that bisects Grand Circus. Grand River and Gratiot are tangential lines from concentric arc segments of Grand Circus. These roads are the mainstreets of cities, and villages far beyond anything that could be considered an exurb of Detroit and with the exception of Grand River they all have rail running parallel to them before leaving city limits, though those rail lines do not converge downtown the same way the roads do.

should I go back to college for civil engineering

One conceptual city you misssed is Walt Disney's origiinal plan for EPCOT, the Experimental Project Communiy of Tomorrow.

I wouldn’t call it a circular city, but Trevelin in Argentina (a small southern town near the Andes) has a sort of circular / octagon grid going on with a central park

Cities should not be strictly planned along a single model. There needs to be a reginal plan that draws up general plans and corridors connecting centers which should be focused around train stations and other centers of activity. Detail planning should be done mostly locally and confirm to local needs instead of some sort of overarching plan.
And first of all local geography needs to be taken into acount.

The centre of Amsterdam is a half-circle and it's really conveniënt since everything feels closeby. I love living here. You should check it out!

The biggest cons of a circular city in a capitalistic economy is preplanning and development overtime. Having pre-selected spaces for certain areas of the city can lead to problems down the line. Budgets fluctuate, schedules change, certain resources can be hard to get throughout the year. Then you’ll see pockets of the city getting made while others are neglected, which is why this kind of design usually works in a resource based economy. In a capitalistic system the only way a circular city would work is if each section couldn’t take care of itself. So going around the circle you would have residential, commercial, and industrial, then build the next section and rotate the zones. That way you’re building the city organically overtime and making sure people can get to their destinations efficiently no matter where you are in the city. I’ve done and simulators and does work.

Can’t forget about one of the other most famous circular city designs, the originally E.P.C.O.T. was going to be a circular city instead of a theme park with multiple “floors” to it.

I’d be curious to learn more about if radial cities actually reduce traffic. Living in Chicago, it seems terrible with all of the major points of interest in the middle as opposed to a true grid city where the public transit followed the grid shape

Goderich, ON has a beautiful radial grid.

Me laughing and crying at M60 (Manchester) and M25 (London) circle motorways... Both of them are terrible and you can take up to 2hrs in them to just enter and exit the city centre.

As someone who has traveled around the world, I have been in several circular city. The big problem is traffic. All roads in these cities go through the city center causing huge traffic problems. Ring roads were never thought of when old circular cities were built.

I heard Paris was designed as a circle city