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Navigation part 3: Reduce the commute

If your user is going down some long garden path, make it easy for them to return to a safe place. Organize your buckets in the “flattest” possible way, avoid deep complex hierarchies.

Sir Ebenezer Howard was the “Edison” of urban planning in mid-19th-century England. His 1898 proposal is titled “Tomorrow: a Peaceful Path to Real Reform”. It features the ultimate social engineering feat. Just outside the central city, which was meant to house 60,000 people, were external city hubs. In between these hubs was space to house all sorts of weirdos: Epileptic Farms, Homes For Waifs, Homes for Inebriates, Insane Asylum…

Hey, Remax, I’m in the market for a sweet little condo in the “Homes For Waifs” district. I hope there’s adequate public transportation from the “Homes for Inebriates” district!

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A third cool map via StrangeMaps

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