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• BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  There weren’t computers when NYC’s grid was laid out either.

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  • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    And the ancient Romans, and Indus valley people another couple millennia earlier were both fond of grid plans.

    They’re considered passe, but there’s real advantage in terms of easy scalability and adaptability to changing land uses.

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  • ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Well, there were. But back then computers had hair and nails.

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    • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Mmm, hot computers. Giggity.

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