being from a highly orthogonally gridded city like chicago, i find these chaotic tangles of medieval street plans to be one of the most exciting aspects of visiting cites like london. it's so much easier to get "lost" in them, with streets eternally twisting this way and that, without any clear indication of the cardinal directions to orient your position to.
in chicago, the streets only go in 2 directions: east-west or north-south (with a token handful of diagonals thrown in to offer a modicum of relief). so it's always very easy to get your bearings, perhaps a little too easy. i mean, a super-grid like chicago's does make it easy to navigate and efficiently move through the city, but it gets monotonous when taken to such a massive scale.
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"Missing middle" housing can be a great middle ground for many middle class families.
Last edited by Steely Dan; Nov 14, 2019 at 3:19 PM.
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