Urban Diagrams ~ Power of Pictures in Planning

Thanks to The Guardian's Oliver Wainwright for spotting Grand plans: how the simple planning diagram has shaped our cities about the exhibit Grand Reductions: 10 Diagrams That Changed City Planning orchestrated by the San Francisco Planning and Urban Research association (SPUR)...

"Many of the ideas that most influenced the design of cities were first expressed through diagrams. These simple visual statements have become iconic distillations of values, policy agendas and ideologies -- touchstones in the visual lexicon of urban planning and design. Grand Reductions investigates the visual culture and iconography of city planning and the impact, for better or worse, of these ideas on the shape of communities in the United States."

Just a few examples...