OOOF that will show me for attempting to talk like I know things. That makes a good deal of sense.
BTW, what do you think of Louis Kahn?
I think an interesting WI from a Americentric perspective would actually derive from the Wren plan-what if instead of hte tendency towards grid plans that originated in Savannah and Philadelphia and came to the forefront with the Comissioner's Plan for NYC, plans more in the Baroque mode with blocks interspersed with grand avenues became the main kind of urban layout? So more cities would be like Annapolis and DC with those layouts?
I think you'd struggle to some extent- the natural tendency to want to just parcel land into neat squares would work against this. You'd probably need Philadelphia at least to be built in this style. but it would still be tricky to get it adopted on a broader basis.
This is why we voted leave.
As a Londoner I mock your straight lines and 90 degree corners, mock them I say.
By the 18th Century it was certainly a thing when it came to untamed wilderness.
Oddly enought, the whole "straight lines in states" is mostly a western/mountain west thing, with some exceptions.Most eastern and midwest states do have some natural borders.
You realise that London is pretty much just a collection of small(ish) mixed use developments with the spaces between Just filled in.This is why we voted leave.
As a Londoner I mock your straight lines and 90 degree corners, mock them I say.
You realise that London is pretty much just a collection of small(ish) mixed use developments with the spaces between Just filled in.
I like how after the Great Fire of London all the architects got together and started doing grand designs to build a grid system from scratch, only to go out and find the scorched Londoners had already roped off the patches of smoking waste land where their houses and roads had been to ensure they were built back just as they had been.This is why we voted leave.
As a Londoner I mock your straight lines and 90 degree corners, mock them I say.
I do like the look of old St Paul's and the gradual narrowing of the river Thames also fascinates me.
Does anyone know if the Thames, especially the isle of dogs, has changed course much in the last couple of thousand years?
Presumably because at first the states met resistance and had to do deals, as they pushed further east simply saying "we're taking all of it" to the few survivors left.
See also Texas.
Northern Ireland as a US state ?
“Err, guys! You know that bit about the right to bear arms? Do you think we could add ‘Except in Northern Ireland’ to it ? Apparently they’re used to that sort of thing.”
How The States got Their Shapes is the book for you. And a more natural river Thames is A) impossible and B) deeply interesting-what if the waterfront remained how a lot of buildings were approached?
Anyhow here's a PoD for you: Borromini doesn't kill himself and builds more buildings. Whither Baroque, especially in western Europe? does he get work outside Rome?
Ok here is something, what if the Case Study House Project in the post war era became the premier domestic house style in america rather than an continuation of the colonial styles which then shifted into MCMansions.