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Originally Posted by masraum
I think many/most big old cities do. NYC has a bunch of cookie cutter stuff. And the pic that you were quoting actually was mostly all different buildings, but was all the same sizes and shapes of city blocks so they just all ran together from a distance.
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depends.. when they were built.. before, or after the enlightenment era.
if before, they will be all over the place streets going all over.
if after, they will be structured.
Paris and London burnt to a crisp and got rebuilt with a city plan to avoid fires spreading again.. Before they all had tiny little streets according to the organic growth in the middle ages.
In Barcelona there are several areas.. La Ramblas, which is all over the place, little streets and many twists and turns. The beach , La Barceloneta with big appartment blocks, older more social housing... La Plata, and other sections that are square building blocks with more upscale housing from the above picture.
The Gothic area is the old town, with la Ramblas.. you don't wanna be caught there at dusk as a tourist.
I was chased by a mugger there, who ended up getting his ass kicked because I ran to a pub to meet friends of my neece.. and it turned out that pub and those friends were just happening to be higher level crims then the mugger
For once it was a good thing she hung out with rif raf , boxers, bouncers and what not..(rich girl, rebelling)
La ramblas
most Other big cities in Europe follow this.. If they they got burnt in the enlightenment era, they rebuilt with a big plan. if not they stayed small streets.. and if destroyed later like in WW2, they rebuilt to preserve the old town and thus by the middle aged street plan..at least in the west..