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fascinating. what city? It sounds like you're not a native -- in your observation, is the ability to navigate easily in the 'rotated downtown' area correlated
by awinter-py 10y ago
fascinating. what city?
It sounds like you're not a native -- in your observation, is the ability to navigate easily in the 'rotated downtown' area correlated with having grown up nearby?
That would make a cool study.
- eric_the_read 10y agoDenver does this; not sure if that's the OP's city, but you can see the relevant bit here: https://www.google.com/maps/@39.7565211,-104.99244,14z https://www.google.com/maps/@39.7565211,-104.99244,14z
- jhbadger 10y agoMontreal works this way -- the street grid is aligned to the St. Lawrence rather than to compass directions
- thefalcon 10y agoI'm in the Central Valley (CA), and I notice that this is a pattern that seems to be repeated up and down the 99 (Downtown parallels the freeway while the rest of the city exists on a normal grid).