On 2020-09-09, A. Dumas  wrote:

> On 08-09-2020 23:10, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>
>> Other favourites are San Francisco (house numbers start wherever the
>> street does, so on two adjacent streets that start in different places
>> the house numbers don't line up),
>
> Huh? *Of course* numbering starts where the street starts. I had never
> heard of the alternative, I suppose it comes with grid street plans,
> which are awful & car centric & dehumanising.

I don't find grids dehumanizing.  When I'm walking to somewhere on
a cross street several blocks away, it's nice to be able to look at
house numbers on the way and creatively modify my route so that I
come out at the right place.

There's another variation on a street near my home.  It's on the
boundary between two districts that use different grids, so the
numbers on one side have no relation to the ones on the other side.

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