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> This instantly reminds me of the (fairly recent, when compared to these 
> 4000-year-old Indus cities) walled Old Cities of Herat and Kandahar - a 
> rectangular layout, cut into roughly same-sized quarters (literally!) by 
> two straight streets, along which the various bazars are situated, while 
> those quarters themselves are residential areas, with labyrinthic narrow 
> streets, partially roofed over. I even own a large-scale Old City plan of 
> Herat, which also shows the distribution of the various trades and 
> craftshops along the main bazar streets (as it was 30 years ago, before 
> all theses wars)... really tempting to model this with PoV-Ray! But before 
> that, I have to get ready with my Kabul basin heightfield, on which I work 
> since October 2004, today I finished work hour #434...
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It seems likely that some things, like city layouts, may survive much longer 
than we think, even surviving changes in population by war or migration. 
Perhaps Herat or Kandahar are the echoes of those remote times. After all, 
the Indus, Baluchistan and Afghanistan were crossed by trade roads from very 
early on. On the other hand, efficient layouts may be re-invented several 
times!

> See you in Khyberspace (yes, that's what Khyberspace is all about)!
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Sure! That,s what I thought!!! :-)

Thomas

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