Casey Chan — Today is the 200th birthday of the street map that spawned the Greatest City in the World. The NY Times has a revealing story on how the grid, which mapped 11 avenues and 155 crosstown streets, transformed New York into a city of right angles.
The urban planners had a ton of foresight! Just think about the year 1811. James Madison was president, it was before the War of 1812 and there were no cars. Yet the city planners started creating a city that would eventually accomodate
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