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Re:How air-conditioning created the modern city by derekp7 on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @05:21PM (#17762018)
Ok, something is off with the info in that link. I just looked up Florence Italy on Google maps, and it measures about 5.5 miles across. I couldn't find that exact interchange in the article's picture, so I picked the largest one I saw by eyeballing the map of Atlanta (I85 and I20), and it appears to measure about 2000 feet across.
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Re:How air-conditioning created the modern city by kingaillas on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @06:16PM (#17762401)
He's using what must be the core downtown area of Florence, Italy. Matching the picture in the post - on google maps, what is bounded by SS67 road on the north side of the Arno river: counterclockwise to Piazza della Liberta and back to the river; and on the south side the road down to Porta Romana and back to the river.

That section eyeballs to be around roughly ~1.5 mi across. Larger than 2000 ft but a lot less than 5.5 mi.

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Re:How air-conditioning created the modern city by rootusrootus on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @06:29PM (#17762471)
Yeah the author seems to be trying to make some point, but even using a very narrow definition of the city of Florence, and a very expansive view of the interchange, he's practically off by an order of magnitude.
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Re:How air-conditioning created the modern city by Dylan16807 on Wednesday August 15, 2018 @02:03AM (#17764058)
The interchange image is 5x too wide, and the Florence image is more than 3x too narrow. That's more than an order of magnitude in length. And more than two orders of magnitude in area.
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Re:How air-conditioning created the modern city by PhasmaFelis on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @07:48PM (#17762843)
He appears to be defining "Florence" as "the urban core of Florence," and "Atlanta cloverleaf" as "Atlanta cloverleaf plus a Florence-sized chunk of adjacent land."
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Re:How air-conditioning created the modern city by emj on Wednesday August 15, 2018 @03:43AM (#17764330)
Highways create alot of dead space that can not be used for other things than really low value stuff. So it's a fair comparision, considering we are talking about walking in a city center vs. people polluting the same size of land
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