Orlando
The city built around a hundred lakes.
Orlando is the one city where the water is not an edge but the pattern itself — lakes scattered right through the grid, each one cut out in matte black, with the downtown cluster rising in the middle and the expressways threading between them.
The only inland city here
Every other panel in this collection is coastal, and the water does the composing. Orlando has no coast, no bay and no significant river — it is the one city on this list shaped entirely from the inside.
What it has instead is lakes. More than a hundred of them sit inside the city limits, scattered rather than arranged, and the street grid bends around them constantly. Where a coastal city has one hard edge, Orlando has a hundred small ones.
A map made of holes
This makes the Orlando panel the structural opposite of Miami's. Miami is a solid built mass with one enormous void through the middle; Orlando is a continuous built field perforated by dozens of small black shapes, none of them dominant.
Lake Eola sits almost in the centre of downtown with the street grid wrapped around it, and north of the city Winter Park's chain of lakes is connected by navigable canals cut in the 1800s. The sinkhole geology that produced all this water is also why the lakes are round — they are collapsed limestone, not carved basins, and the panel shows that roundness plainly.

