What If Manhattan Were Designed Like Paris?

in urban-design •  7 years ago 

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A digital design class at Columbia University has led to some provocative questions about New York City. The work by Charles-Antoine Perrault destabilizes our conception of Manhattan, which we so strongly associate with the street grid. But what if the early city planners had envisioned a city with the grand boulevards of Paris? It happened in Washington D.C. and Detroit, so why not New York?

Source: Untapped Cities

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