• A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I swear one of the major European cities is built like this too (lanes radiating from a central point versus being oriented on a grid) but I can’t remember which one. I thought Paris at first but nope.

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      2 months ago

      Paris was demolished to look similar tothis and the same in Berlin. I don’t think there are any major cities in Europe that started out like this, but there’s a few small ones.

      There were some that started out with star-fort-like city walls, similar to Palmanova, but usually less symmetric like Antwep or Vienna. But none of them had that radial street pattern

      I think you only see that radial street pattern in relatively modern planned cities.