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Photographer Jason Hawkes takes some amazing aerial pictures of London which demonstrate the organic street network of the city. It could have been so much different. After the Great Fire of London there were various competing plans to rebuild the city on a grid around major axis routes, but the landowners simply wanted to rebuild, the concession being that the gaps between buildings increased to avoid fires simply jumping across the street. As such the road network hasn’t changed much since the pre-Roman times.

All credit for the following pictures: https://twitter.com/jasonhawkesphot