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street orientation entropy: a standalone construct

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Urban geography

the entropy of street bearings in a city, used to measure how closely its network follows a single ordered grid.

In urban geography, street orientation entropy refers to the entropy of street bearings in a city, used to measure how closely its network follows a single ordered grid. This meaning comes from Boeing (2019) in Applied Network Science.[1]

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References

Boeing, G. (2019). Urban spatial order: street network orientation, configuration, and entropy. Applied Network Science, 4(1). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41109-019-0189-1

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