On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 08:37:07 -0800, Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:

>Stephen wrote:
>> On Sat, 21 Feb 2009 08:23:39 -0800, Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>> 
>>> Most of the east coast cities have city blocks 1/10th of a mile on the long 
>>> side, and (IIRC) 1/5th of 1/10th of a mile on the short side. It makes it 
>>> convenient for knowing how far you have to go - it's 2 miles from 13th 
>>> street to 33rd street.
>> 
>> Thanks, I did not know that. My vague memories of Miami and Pittsburgh were of
>> much larger blocks. 
>
>Well, I'm speaking of the ones where most of the layout was before 
>automobiles - NYC, Philadelphia, etc.  Obviously it's not going to hold 
>across the board, but in the "old" cities, it's not too uncommon. (Assuming 
>they were planned at all, of course. :-)

That makes sense of course. It's just that I grew up in a place that the only
planning was to go up when there was a hill and down in a valley ;)
There are lots of strange shaped intersections and areas called "the new town"
because they were built only 200 years ago. :P
-- 

Regards
     Stephen

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