On 2017-10-12 01:33, Chris Angelico wrote: > Have you seen a city that grew one house at a time, and had > streets added to service those houses? Not good.
Actually, that's more or less how most cities grew historically. Nowadays these organically grown city centres tend to be much more people-friendly than "modern" cities (mis-)designed around the road and the motorcar. Of course they've had centuries to mature. They've seen constant maintenance and refactoring (fortifying the city, digging canals, moving fortifications to accommodate growth, building railway lines, replacing key canals with roads, ...) to adapt to changing demands and challenges of the environment. Yes, yes, there are plenty of examples of cities with more recent histories of ad hoc growth that don't function as well as London, Budapest or Jerusalem - yet. No, the comparison is not relevant. For starters, people tend to care more about their home than about their PHP code. -- Thomas Jollans -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
