![]() 1907 US: Architect John McLaren designed one of the first American traffic circles for both autos and streetcars (trams) in the Hanchett Residence Park in what is now San Jose, California.He re-designed New York City's famous Columbus Circle, which was finished in 1905. 1905 US: American architect William Phelps Eno favored small traffic circles.1904 US: Columbus Circle in Manhattan, New York.1899 Germany: Brautwiesenplatz (Bride Meadow('s) Place) in Görlitz.1879 Netherlands: The Keizer Karelplein in Nijmegen.1877 France: The French architect Eugène Hénard was designing one-way circular intersections.1821 US: The Governor's Circle (later renamed Monument Circle) of Indianapolis, Indiana (which gave the city the nickname "The Circle City"). ![]() Many of them had a rectangular outer outline, but within each was a place, around which the streets should be built, thus reducing the number of arms/legs of each crossing. This design contained several large places/street crossings.
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