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Originally Posted by 10023
Grids are a bit like 1950s concepts of towers-in-a-park residential communities. Beloved of urban planners at a desk but, when it comes down to it, not preferred by real human beings. They’re not usually evocative of anything, and not so conducive to “placemaking”. Manhattan’s endless canyons might be one of the few exceptions to the former, but without that kind of density, or at the very least a good unbroken mid-rise streetwall, grids are downright boring.
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The problem is you cant plan for winding streets. In order to achieve it in the "right way" it has to be organic and be done over decades and decades.
unless you are building a theme park or a shopping center it does not make sense in any modern context to build like that. Investors wont fund projects, builders wont waste land doing it when they can fit more in an efficient grid pattern.