OpenGeofiction
While reading Rasmus Rasmusson’s Introduction to Řots post, I realized that I haven’t thought about wind directions that much when mapping my country when Rasmus mentioned his friend advising him to think about wind directions when building an industrial zone in order to not make the capital city too smelly. Has anyone thought about wind directions much in the community?
Discussion
Comment from histor on 17 December 2014 at 23:20
In Europa the industrial area is in the east of the towns - because there are at most times wind from southwest. I think, the OGF-planet rotates in the same direction as the earth. Who can explain, what follows about the winds - special at the suthern part of the OGF-planet?
Comment from Portopolis on 18 December 2014 at 04:15
I just try to surround my Industrial area with a few parks and Nature reserves, But I thought That the wind blowing SE and NE like it does in The US would make the areas primarily east of the city more smelly and low income like the areas of Houston east and south of The Port of Houston. I also have the bias that East side of cities is the bad side, which seems true in a couple cities (U.S) and is kind of true with Houston, where I live nearby. Also I live on the West side. If you look up Why is Pasadena so, Baytown so or a couple other big eastern suburbs on Google you will see what I mean.
Comment from tom_m7 on 18 December 2014 at 05:27
@Portopolis Wind blows differently in many parts of the world, even within the U.S. For example, in the Seattle area (where I live), there is the area of very, very affluent towns on the east side of the city and Lake Washington (To give you a hint of the wealthy people living in that area: Bill Gates owns and lives on a property in Medina. I’ve even seen it many times driving on one of the floating bridges across the Lake!). Even more so, the area surrounding the “Gold Coast” is the Eastside, home to the tech companies of Microsoft, Valve, Nintendo (of America), T-Mobile, Coinstar, and Expedia, to name a few. My point? The east side isn’t always dirty. And I live there. No hard feelings.
A lot of places in the world are different in terms of affluency (is that even a word) and the direction the wind always seems to blow. Living in a narrow valley, the wind blows north/northwest there, but in Houston, the wind blows east and south. I don’t know what causes wind or determines the directions it blows, and what I’m saying is if someone does know, we can figure out what effect it has on cities around the map.
On the other hand, cities aren’t always perfect and planned out well. To be realistic in those terms we very well can forgo wind and planning.
Comment from Portopolis on 19 December 2014 at 12:44
i know, I lived of the East Side of Port Harcourt and living on The West Coast Most suburbs Are East of the city because of the water boundary with a few exceptions. But I meant that the dirty side tends to be east of the industrial side of town cause of how the wind generally blows within the US. Sorry If I insulted you. Like I said a few cities follow this pattern. In Lafayette the Northside was more low income and that was where I lived in Lafayette as my dad was FOB and was just settling in the U.S. Even in Houston cause of no zoning all 4 sides of the city has a couple extremely Impoverished areas even though more higher income people tend to live in the North and West sides. I have heard good things about Seattle, as I am interested in Geography a lot, I find the Way the Seattle Metro area is shaped very interesting. It seems to me there would be a lot of traffic on the Bridges, Is this true?
Comment from tom_m7 on 19 December 2014 at 23:12
I’m good, I’m not insulted at all. Like I said, no hard feelings. And yes, there is indeed a LOT of traffic on the floating bridges across this lake, but only in the leak hours. By the way, there’s a talk page on the Wiki for world geography… or is it geology? I don’t have a link to it currently because I’m on my phone, but if you’re interested in that…
Comment from Portopolis on 20 December 2014 at 16:07
Yeah very, I went to the Texas State Geography Bee.