Straßenkarte von Chicago. Alle 8 Blocks ist eine Meile.
Von Beedee0823
Straßenkarte von Chicago. Alle 8 Blocks ist eine Meile.
Von Beedee0823
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True but why does this map not use the multiple of 800 streets for the South Side?
Why are the South horizontal streets not all at 800 intervals?
(I see 1200 – 1000 – 900 before settling down to 800.)
Same in Phoenix street grid except it works both horizontally and vertically. Plus the grid extends far beyond downtown out to the outermost reaches of the city.
Numbered street every furlong, 8 streets in a mile. Numbered streets run east-west, named north-south. Avenues and smaller side streets called boulevards and ways west of Central Ave, Streets and smaller side streets called parkways or place east of Central Ave. Makes navigating with just an address easy.
Same on main streets in my town. They all run on section and township lines
Grid layout cities are the most souless cities in the world to walk around. Prove me wrong
Confusing map. Not sure how I’m supposed to read this…
It’s not eight blocks from western to kedize or kedize to Pulaski…it’s eight blocks from western to California
Isn’t 1/8 of a mile a furlong?
Portland does this NS/EW grid but blocks are smaller.
They use numbers for N/S street names as well, so if you see 120th, you know how far you are from the river.
In some areas, the streets are also alphabetical. Alder, Burnside, Couch, Davis, …
It’s really organized well!
SF has multiple grids. They don’t align, and were created at different times. The hills and parks also make consistency more challenging. There’s some numbering, but you kind of have to just learn things.
London is just incredible. No rules, only chaos. The brains (via MRI) of taxi drivers who learn „the knowledge“ of the street layouts there are different from mortals.
Almost every American city works this way. Before gps this is how you learned cities. Find a city not organized this way. I want to know which one it is.
„I know you mad ‚cause I smoked your man, left him on the curb“
She started laughin‘, she say, „Fuck that n*gga, he from 63rd“
Denver is the same. It’s a really easy city to navigate.
Can someone point out where would the Gallagher family in shameless be located? Or how about The Bear/Original Beef? I’ve been watching those two lately and then this popped up
Is there an easy way to memorize this – a mnemonic or sentence or something?
Wow, Chicago’s grid system is wild! Every 8 blocks a mile? Crazy!
This is why I love traveling in Chicago. I have a sense of knowing how far things are based on street numbers only without memorizing all the street names.
I’m always amazed how many places are named after the Native tribe from Rhode Island. (Also name of the beer and the bay and city in RI).
There’s also a street near the beach in San Diego named after them