Not OC
City planners: hnnnnnnnnnnnnnggggg
Is this the whole city or just the same poster neighborhood again and again? I can’t imagine the ancients having the same building codes for wage earners as they do now.
I can’t imagine the ancients having the same building codes for wage earners as they do now
Mohenjo-Daro, Harappa, and other Indus valley civilization cities had grid layouts 4,600 years ago; Egypt used grid layouts around the same time; Babylon, 15th century BCE China, classical Greece and Rome, Teotihuacan… turns out that grid layouts have been the go-to for planned cities pretty much since people came up with the idea of planning cities. 🤷♂️
It’s certainly unique and all, but a little too “samey” for my liking.
Yeah exactly! The designer tried so hard to make it efficient or whatever, but didn’t balance it with nature…
Don’t blame Cerdà. Every block was supposed to have a park or square in it. They were never intended to have buildings on all four sides, three at most, mainly two (in parallel or as an L) or even only one. And then history and economics and politics happened.
I’ve been there exactly once in my life.
We were going to a place, which we could see in the distance, so we decided to walk there.
Half an hour walking later the place seemed to still be exactly as far away as when we started and our sense of reality was eroding significantly.
Like others have said, not the whole place is like that, but man, it IS kinda weird.
One of the least ‘samey’ cities in the world imo. To me it felt like every house was looking different when I was visiting
What’s up with the blue vs yellow light?
Sid Meiers’ Civilization wonder completion vibes intensify.
