The Off Topic Topic

[mongers]

But less useful given the multitude of named cross streets.

If you live there long enough, you know that Ocean Avenue is East 20th Street, Bedford Avenue is East 25th Street, Nostrand Avenue is East 30th Street, etc.

I'm currently spending time in Salisbury, unusually a British city built on a grid system, because it was laid out relatively recently in the mid-13th century. 

Still the natural British tendency is to make things non systematic:

[MadImmortalMan]

That's your idea of a grid system? Dublin is more grid-like than that. And the way streets change names every couple blocks...ugh.

[CountDeMoney]

That's your idea of a grid system?

Yeah, no kidding    Not a single 90 degree angle in the whole thing.

[Liep]

Home again, and the neighbour is out with his alarm clock on. When is it legal to break in and smash that thing?

[fhdz]

That's your idea of a grid system?

Yeah, no kidding    Not a single 90 degree angle in the whole thing.

Which is funny, because I know for a fact that even in the 13th century master builders knew what a right angle was.

[MadImmortalMan]

http://www.360cities.net/image/heavenly-gondola-lookout-over-lake-tahoe/?from=map,39.09413,-119.78690,11#403.29,5.38,70.0


This place is always cool. Hell of a view from up there, but even in the summer you better bring a jacket. In winter, crawling with hot women skiing.

[Zanza]

That's your idea of a grid system? Dublin is more grid-like than that. And the way streets change names every couple blocks...ugh.

I like how Endless Street is just three blocks long.

[lustindarkness]

Is that a very hilly area? Even in hilly areas, a grid system can be adapted better than that.

[Maladict]

Salisbury is a thirteenth century medieval new town built on a settled plan or grid of five streets from east to west, and six from north to south forming "chequers" or squares. This is believed to be based on what had been the common field of the ancient parish of St Martin. A key feature in Salisbury's design was the widespread provision of running water through open watercourses along the streets. The city was planned so that water could be drawn from the Avon as it runs southwards, diverted through the town and fed back into the river as it runs from west to east, and this feature explains why the chequers – the quarters bounded by the streets – are not perfectly rectangular.

[MadImmortalMan]

Makes sense. You can tell that the track of Endless St./Catherine St./Queen St./St. John St./ExeterSt. ( ) could serve exactly that purpose.

[MadImmortalMan]

There's a big hole in the Sun...




Lucky I stay indoors most of the time.

I guess we're saved.

[Razgovory]

Huh.  Someone I was friends with in highschool, and used to live down the street from is posting stuff from the American Freedom Party on facebook.

[mongers]

Salisbury is a thirteenth century medieval new town built on a settled plan or grid of five streets from east to west, and six from north to south forming "chequers" or squares. This is believed to be based on what had been the common field of the ancient parish of St Martin. A key feature in Salisbury's design was the widespread provision of running water through open watercourses along the streets. The city was planned so that water could be drawn from the Avon as it runs southwards, diverted through the town and fed back into the river as it runs from west to east, and this feature explains why the chequers – the quarters bounded by the streets – are not perfectly rectangular.

Yeah, which is the water that's now flowing past my home. 
And when they replaced those city street water drains in the 19th century, the found very well preserved artifacts formed the basis for the museum I volunteer at.

[Ed Anger]

It was full of steaks.

[mongers]

It was full of steaks.

Actually a bunch of surprisingly delicate medieval keys amongst other things.
Though I guess you could characterise them as things people dropped or that fell out of their pockets over the course of 6 centuries.