So, in a moment of inspiration while thinking back to 6th grade math and our study of tessellations, I thought there may be some significant applications for cities design using tessellations that I have never previously considered.  I am sure this wasn’t an original idea, everything from sidewalk patterns to block patterns require tessellation type patterns, but I figured the intentional combination of the two might offer some new insight.

Anyway, what happens when you plug “tessellation city” into Google?  In my case, you see a friendly face – err, friendly blog – at #5 on the list.  Oklahoma’s longtime blog master – Charlie Hill at Dustbury.com – claims the spot with a short post entitled “It’s that new tessellation defensez.”  While his post does not offer up the type of physical planning theory I was searching for, it did offer a nice pre-NBA draft blurb and still managed to slide in a reference to another branch of mathematical theory covered in 6th grade.  When I say covered, that is to say, we made Möbius strips out of craft paper.