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I was walking North through the back streets of the City just a few days ago - from London Bridge to London Wall. It's amazing that so much of my route - zigzag
by leoedin 2y ago
I was walking North through the back streets of the City just a few days ago - from London Bridge to London Wall. It's amazing that so much of my route - zigzagging left and right through various junctions and down alleys - is clearly visible on an 800 year old map. I suspect none of the buildings are the same, but the roads are still there.
- cco 2y agoThat was by far my favorite part of visiting London, you could really feel and see how much of the city was still as it has been for a thousand years...just the penny rooms are now luxury flats.
- Gibbon1 2y agoI remember reading about an archeological dig in an intersection in the old part of Damascus. They dug down though a few thousand years of accumulated soil and found nothing.
- mncharity 2y agoThat reminds me of the trapezoidal Chrysler Building[1] in NYC, shaped by a plot boundary reflecting the pre-grid Boston Post Road[2] (only 2 weeks NYC-Boston!). The Road elsewheres reflects 1600's colonial improvements to the earlier Pequot Path, and influenced US1 et al. [1] https://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/tag/chrysler-building-boston-post-road/ https://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/tag/chrysler-building... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Post_Road https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Post_Road