"The old photograph from the map of old of Nagasaki" Topic
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Tango01 | 10 Jan 2014 12:11 p.m. PST |
Of possible interest? link Hope you enjoy!. Amicalement Armand |
FingerandToeGlenn | 10 Jan 2014 1:25 p.m. PST |
Interesting because we tend to think or cities as laid out on orthogonal grids. |
Sergeant Paper | 10 Jan 2014 9:59 p.m. PST |
Really? New cities, rebuilt cities, sure, but the hallmark of cities is the organic way they develop, so you have: Streets laid out by cows in Boston Streets going off in odd directions in Honolulu (because when they were built there were fishponds and salt marshes to avoid) Streets that change names whenever they turn (Boston, for sure) Streets that just extend off into the wilderness (and not necessarily in any variant of straight) for instance, Mulholland and Sunset boulevards in LA Grids are nice, but not the hallmark of cities. |
Sergeant Paper | 10 Jan 2014 10:06 p.m. PST |
Here in Honolulu at least, when I see a grid it is modern and built NEW and all laid out at one time, like homestead lots, or subdivisions. The rest of the city is much more irregular, with many exceptions to the grid, and oddities (like little narrow vestigial streets, not originally alleys but too narrow for modern two-way traffic, that have been turned into one-block-long one-way streets). And the aforementioned things like streets laid out to avoid long-gone water hazards. |
ancientsgamer | 11 Jan 2014 8:03 p.m. PST |
Cities right next to rivers are the ones that usually will have the quirkiest turns to things too. Cities like Philadelphia, Washington, etc. were purposely laid out but are the exception rather than the rule. In San Antonio, for instance, the main streets all headed in a specific direction so you have Austin Highway, Houston St., Laredo, Pleasanton Road, New Braunfels Ave., Fredericksburg Road, etc. At some point they head directly to the city in their name. So you have more of a spiderweb network of of streets heading to all points of the compass and secondary streets in between. |
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