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Beijing, as a plan

A poster of Beijing, China, drawn from the map itself: every building, street and river around its centre, in ink and colour.

Beijing map poster: the city drawn as a plan
  • 1,073 buildings and 12.8 km of streets within 600 metres of the centre; the tallest rises 48 m, and buildings cover 43% of the ground.
  • Its streets have an orientation order of 0.92: close to a grid (0 is every direction, 1 a perfect grid).
  • Over four kilometres around, the ground lies between 38 and 86 m above the sea.

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Digital files €9, posters from €35, printed in Europe.
Not made by AI: every line is computed from OpenStreetMap data and open terrain data.

Four ways to draw Beijing

Beijing: Ground Plan
VII · Ground PlanThe 600 metres around the point as a figure-ground plan: buildings solid, streets and squares the paper between them.
Beijing: Axonometry
VIII · AxonometryThe buildings within 240 metres of the point, raised to their mapped heights, as an architect's axonometric drawing seen from the south-west.
Beijing: Street Compass
IX · Street CompassWhich ways the streets within 600 metres run, as a radial composition: the longer the streets in a direction, the larger its sector.
Beijing: Strata
X · StrataThe ground's height over four kilometres around the point, in stepped levels like stacked paper.

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