Create your Kansas City map poster

The 2020 census counted 508,090 residents, making Kansas City the sixth-most populous city in the Midwest. Its wider metropolitan area has about 2.25 million people and extends into Kansas.

Two rivers set the central geometry. Streets and railway corridors bend around the Missouri River, the Kansas River, and the land between their banks.

At a four-kilometre scale, both river channels and the downtown street grid enter the frame. Rail approaches and roads toward the state line show how the confluence directs movement through the center.

Set the Missouri and Kansas rivers as broad negative space, then give rail corridors a line weight between highways and local streets. That hierarchy keeps the confluence legible among the central blocks.

Geographic details sourced from Wikipedia.