CarawouThe urban core of Topeka, Kansas, consist of buildings scattered among parking lots
I measured the area of the yellow area in Inkscape. It’s 30% of the image. The streets are roughly another 20% (and many of those are just circling the parking lots).
So we could pack almost twice as much stuff into this image, and therefore reduce average travel times by half (depends exactly how densification happens, but my reasoning is it’s twice as likely for you to find what you’re looking for within a set distance from you).
Curious how you did that in inkscape. Was it time consuming? I know about the trace path function which could be used for the yellow, but how did you do the streets?
I just put rectangles on like 6 blocks and got about 26% street area, then figured many places had bigger blocks or narrower streets. The area is measured by extensions -> measure path.