Candelabra, Dallas, TX

 The shape of this development-to-be makes me thinking of nothing so much as a fancy candelabra.

Bending arm, Dallas, TX

 This street-form makes me think of a figure with a bending arm.

Concentric curves, Dallas, TX

 Tight concentric curves of housing form arcs in this development near Dallas.

Three-legged development, Charlotte, NC

A three-legged shape sketching this development-to-be.

Circular development, Charlotte, NC

An unusual circular development, building step by step clockwise around its planned sweep.

Tetris maze, Chicagoland

This apparently abandoned development makes me think of a maze or Tetris blocks.

Chair development, Chicagoland

Development with roadways shaped like a rocking chair.

Curving neighborhood, Baltimore, MD

Curving bubbles on the alien sigil of this development's pattern of cul-de-sacs.

Clockwise progression, Charlotte, NC

At 12 o'clock, the development is old and established, at 3 o'clock new but inhabited (judging by tree distributions), at 5 o'clock houses are in construction, while 7 sees only finished roads and at 10 the roads are still raw earth.

Tendril cul-de-sacs, Charlotte, NC

Five long stems of cul-de-sac emerge from a partial development near Charlotte.

Blooming tendrils, Charlotte, NC

The branching lines of this development stem out from the root / entrance at right in a way that makes me think of a growing plant.

Three prongs, Chicagoland

Three prongs of cul-de-sac, close packed like branching buds.

Three layer bend, Chicagoland

A surprisingly delicate tracery of this three-layer web, with just enough lawn and sidewalk to make this beautiful to my eye.

Wavy parallels, Chicagoland

Wavy lines of cul-de-sacs, just not quite parallel or regular with one another.

Scattering loop, Chicagoland

The townhouses of this loop are oddly positioned, seemingly unable to make up their mind how they should be spaced or oriented.

Extended G, Chicagoland

An extended G-like shape of suburban developmen.

Diverging paths, Chicagoland

Two diverging paths in a growing development, spreading apart as they proceed.

Circular suburbia, outside Detroit

One almost never sees properly circular suburban layouts: more often, the circles are just little stubs of cul-de-sac. Here on is, however, and a double-ring at that, outside of Detroit.

Squares and Rectangles, Dallas, TX

Rectilinear forms in an unbuilt development near Dallas.

Four bubbles, Dallas, TX

Four bubbles of cul-de-sac in a tight-packed development near Dallas.