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Re:"No inventions; no innovations" A History of US Steel by ProjectArcturis on Friday December 29, 2023 @02:43PM (#38809324)
Similar to many cities having catastrophic fires (New York, Chicago) which allowed them to rebuild their streets on a grid system. Vs Boston, which never had a great fire but which is known today for the phrase "You can't get there from here."
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Re:"No inventions; no innovations" A History of US Steel by turndown on Friday December 29, 2023 @02:46PM (#38809365)
Chicago had a grid system before the great fire, maybe NY is a good example of this but I do not know. See this[0] 1869 map which shows Chicago was already quite regularized

0: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a8/1869_Bla...

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Re:"No inventions; no innovations" A History of US Steel by ericjmorey on Friday December 29, 2023 @03:50PM (#38810057)
It's not. The older parts of NYC are still not on a grid, there was no massive fire in NYC that needed to be rebuilt. They may have been thinking of London `¯\_(ツ)_/¯`
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Re:"No inventions; no innovations" A History of US Steel by caboteria on Friday December 29, 2023 @03:43PM (#38809979)
We've had a couple of big fires: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Boston_Fire

Somehow they didn't result in exchanging grids for winding streets.

The back bay, though, is newer than other parts of the city and it's a grid.

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Re:"No inventions; no innovations" A History of US Steel by technofiend on Friday December 29, 2023 @03:43PM (#38809980)
Re, Boston: The way I heard it was "Three rights make left, except in Boston."
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