Post by Arlon10 on Sept 3, 2018 11:36:30 GMT
Another interesting fact about the area is that Oklahoma City is one of the few "planned" cities in the world. Curiously it is no longer listed on Wikipedia as a planned city, but it was certainly planned and I would guess has the largest plan of them all.
It did not exist before the land run of 1889 and could therefore be planned more so than other so called planned cities. There is a grid of streets that run north and south each a mile apart and streets that run east and west each a mile apart. The grid divides the city into "perfect" (more or less) square mile sections. The pattern is consistent through several hundred such square mile sections, obvious on Google Maps, unlike other planned cities.
Navigating the city is very easy. It is obvious which directions are exactly north, south, east, and west. The pattern is very rarely interrupted. You can plan a trip across the the whole thing with very few street changes. Later development has made that a little less obvious, but the pattern is still there.
It did not exist before the land run of 1889 and could therefore be planned more so than other so called planned cities. There is a grid of streets that run north and south each a mile apart and streets that run east and west each a mile apart. The grid divides the city into "perfect" (more or less) square mile sections. The pattern is consistent through several hundred such square mile sections, obvious on Google Maps, unlike other planned cities.
Navigating the city is very easy. It is obvious which directions are exactly north, south, east, and west. The pattern is very rarely interrupted. You can plan a trip across the the whole thing with very few street changes. Later development has made that a little less obvious, but the pattern is still there.