This paper deals with the road patterns of housing estates in eight Hungarian cities. The investigation was directed to the characteristic of street networks using geographic information system. The different types of housing estates were compared using the following indicators: ratio of T and X junctions, ratio of the dead ends, average distance between nodes, connectivity index, and road density. It is concluded that according to their street network the housing estates have three periods.
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