101 London vs. Tucson?

Being a native Arizonan I appreciated your comparison of Tucson’s city street grid to the concentric circles and spokes of London’s roadways. However, I’m not sure that you can definitely tie a city grid-plan to its quality and quantity of cultural relevance. I’m guessing here but I would predict that London’s 2000+ years of history are the determining factor in its cultural vibrancy as well as the fact that London was the epicenter for the one of the most expansive colonial empires the world has yet seen.

In comparison Tucson has existed in one continuous form or another for roughly 300 years. Not a very long time in the grand scheme of micro-cultures.

I would not disagree that the city-grid may play a part in this cultural development (or lack there-of) but it should probably not be ascertained as the central foundation of the issue.

posted at 06:33 pm on March 3, 2009 by Mike Jones

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