this post was submitted on 06 Feb 2024
681 points (98.4% liked)

pics

19628 readers
274 users here now

Rules:

1.. Please mark original photos with [OC] in the title if you're the photographer

2..Pictures containing a politician from any country or planet are prohibited, this is a community voted on rule.

3.. Image must be a photograph, no AI or digital art.

4.. No NSFW/Cosplay/Spam/Trolling images.

5.. Be civil. No racism or bigotry.

Photo of the Week Rule(s):

1.. On Fridays, the most upvoted original, marked [OC], photo posted between Friday and Thursday will be the next week's banner and featured photo.

2.. The weekly photos will be saved for an end of the year run off.

Weeks 2023

Instance-wide rules always apply. https://mastodon.world/about

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 

Not OC

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Is this the whole city or just the same poster neighborhood again and again? I can't imagine the ancients having the same building codes for wage earners as they do now.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

This is only Eixample, the entire city does not look like this.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I can't imagine the ancients having the same building codes for wage earners as they do now

Mohenjo-Daro, Harappa, and other Indus valley civilization cities had grid layouts 4,600 years ago; Egypt used grid layouts around the same time; Babylon, 15th century BCE China, classical Greece and Rome, Teotihuacan... turns out that grid layouts have been the go-to for planned cities pretty much since people came up with the idea of planning cities. 🤷‍♂️