re: #83 wheat-dogg

How New York City got its street grid(s).

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Square and rectangular street grids have all sorts of drawbacks, like the tendency for wind tunnels and traffic infarcts to form…

I’ve been toying with a hexagonal city grid (it’s the only other shape than squares and rectangles that tiles). One of the interesting problems is that street names would have to go, instead one would have do name individual hexagons. But it would solve the wind tunnel and traffic infarcts. Navigation is a problem I’m still figuring out how to solve.