These three images, meant to be viewed as a series, tell a story about land development in Buncombe County, NC.
The subdivision of parcels is the process by which large plots of land are broken up into smaller lots. There is usually a correlation between the desirability of land in an area and the densification of parcels over time.
Urban planning and economic analysis isn’t the only trick in my book.
I’ve also operated with engineers to run financial models for deciding where to place new crossguard markings. The following flowchart (developed in LucidChart) describes that decision-making process: