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The url link of the photo has El Paso in the name.
lol really? I'm IN El Paso right now and will be for another 302 days, I wonder where that is?! And for the record, the westside of El Paso does look like that but the Eastside is surprisingly more dense. If I were to compare it to any other city I'd say maybe Riverside, CA but without as many trees.
That's exactly what happened! Georgia's forefathers expected Savannah because it was the port city to become the great big city of Georgia. Thus they designed Savannah with a grid system lots and lots of squares and boulevards, and closely built tall multistory houses together. There were grand ornate buildings built and so forth.
Atlanta on the other hand was a dusty little outpost of a railroad town with no major waterways and this was back before most people foresaw the rail road becoming such a hugely important mode of transportation. It's streets were slapped together narrowly and beyond the center they quickly became meandering trails following old Indian trails or creeks. When an explosion in growth came because Atlanta happened to be in the perfect spot to link the rail roads of the North with those to the South it caught everyone off guard. The cities' urban areas grew in and amongst already existing surburban areas and it was too late to apply a grid street system where spoke and wheel type development was already going on.
Imagine. Paula Deen would be even richer!
(I have yet to see Savannah. I think I would like it).
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