Urban fabric
"(...) there really is no perfect form of street fabric - many different networks and patterns are capable of producing wonderful places and being friendly for pedestrians as long as their fabric allows frequent and comprehensive linkages - there simply seems to be an upper scale beyond which all hope of efficient (and therefore popular) pedestrian circulation is gone."
MISSISSAUGA: “Long blocks and virtually empty sidewalks”
BARCELONA: “La Ramblas is the main north-south promenade”
COPENHAGEN: “City features a car-free zone called the Stroget”
LONDON: “The Mayfair and Soho districts south of Oxford St”
NEW YORK: “Midtown Manhattan south of Central Park”
PARIS: “Streets were designed by Georges-Eugne Haussmann”
ROME: “East of the Tiber River bend that points to the Vatican”
SAN FRANCISCO: “Market St splits the central city into two grids”
TORONTO: “Between Queen and College Sts east of Bathurst”
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