Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Watching the grid grow
This article in the NY Times about the 200th anniversary of the NYC street grid is accompanied by a nifty interactive map of which I think the chronological "street opening" slider provides a dramatic illustration of the city's steady and, sometimes, meteoric growth; a great prompt for students to support with examples from the rise of industry, demographics, and other events.
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