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Is there an explanation for why Coruscant is covered in concentric circles? I realize the entire planet is a city, but it seems strange that there are circles.



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I don't recall ever reading anything about this. Maybe some sort of urban planning?

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Perhaps zoning laws that dictate how the cities could expand?
 
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I don't think it's ever been addressed.

Could be urban planning, with the buildings built up in clusters forming huge rings.

The lines in-between could be transportation routes. Something like giant aerial highways for flying vessels, linking the different clusters of buildings on the surface, which are lit up by the lights of the traffic.

 
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Was that in the Hasnian(sp) system? Is it moot?




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Aliens.


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Was that in the Hasnian(sp) system? Is it moot?


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I don't know about the circles but that's a lot of light bulbs.


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Gerrymandering...

Actually, never seen it addressed anywhere either.




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The advanced city that Jodie Foster's character sees briefly in Contact also appears to be built on a circular grid pattern of some type. I would guess that a metropolitan layout of this kind has various advantages in efficiency and logistics, from power distribution to transportation. Maybe some day our cityscapes will look like this.



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"Because it looks cool."


I think that is the easiest, and most likely answer.



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I would guess that a metropolitan layout of this kind has various advantages in efficiency and logistics, from power distribution to transportation. Maybe some day our cityscapes will look like this.


Washington DC is laid out like spokes of a wheel. Apparently, it's a real PITA to get around town.



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Gerrymandering...

Can that even be considered in a government where all the representatives are from other planets?



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Perhaps....
Constant traffic creates the lines between "city centers" and the circles are the traffic loops around those centers....
 
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OK, here's the answer provided by one of my connections into nerddom

"utopian urban planning. manufacturing/industry in the center, commercial surrounds that, residential surrounds that. all goods flow from the center :smiley: the cities likely existed where the circle centers are before they spread to cover the planet."

And there is this link : details & history




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"Because it looks cool."


I think that is the easiest, and most likely answer.



The Rule of Cool. Nerds try and find meaning in all sorts of their fantasies. Why does this look like that? Why do they do this? And the nerdier they are, the deeper they go. I was reading about the universe of Firefly, because I too am a nerd, and there was a retarded debate about the guns. Why do the guns all look like modern guns? That's clearly a Winchester, that's clearly a Saiga, that's clearly a Glock, and so on. Possible answers were arms control laws making only ancient weapons legal, but that didn't explain why even government forces had the same kind of guns. Maybe when humanity left Earth, the weapon manufacturers went with them and took their designs with them, and instead of starting from the ground up they just used what they knew?

Oooooooooor, maybe it's a TV show filmed in the present where all they have are guns from today, and a prop house full of tools and epoxy and little metal bits that look cool hanging off an Uzi but don't actually do anything?

Sometimes we just gotta turn our brains off and enjoy the show.



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Maybe they're based on crop circles?




 
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