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[โ€“] Bezier@suppo.fi 32 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Here's a portion of detroit:

The city is almost entirely grid, some of it at an angle. You can see these two grids visualized in the post.

[โ€“] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Seattle too has a section that's perfectly n/s. It was built upon infill created by destroying larger hills, flattening the city and filling in the bays. The older city is canted off at a strange angle, you can see the streets change directions at denny way near downtown.

Outside the downtown corridor everything is aligned NS iirc.