There are benefits to both planned and chaotic street designs. The planned streets are easy to navigate while the chaotic ones tend to hold some social charm.

@Skinny Dipper,
Clearly you have a better sense of direction than I do. If you’ve been lost as many times as I have, you really start to appreciate grids :).

Zeeshan.

@Zeeshan Hamid,
Hey, I have been lost in some of the European cities. I’ve walked up hill like walking up those stairs in that optical illusion 3D drawing where I end up at the start. One time in Paris, My train stopped at a metro station near the Pompidou Centre. I got off, walked underground and exited at some completely different metro station. I had to take the metro again just to get back to the station near the Pompidou Centre.

The grid system is easier to navigate. It’s probably bad Feng Shui. Then again, I’m not an expert in urban Feng Shui. The parking lot at the Chinese Pacific Mall in Markham is difficult to navigate.

@Skinny Dipper,

haha, that made me laugh. I complained about Kitchener / Waterloo to my mother-in-law once who lives in Kitchener. She replied “Mississauga grids are boring, Kitchener roads are interesting”.

Roads don’t exist for Feng Shui, they exist for navigation :). I can’t imagine the challenges of running an efficient transit system in those messed up cities.

My absolute favourite numbering system is what they use in the Seattle area. My home address was 13519 34th Ave SE. Just from that, you could tell that I was at the intersection of 135th St and 34th Ave, 19 yards South of the intersection at the SE quadrant of the town. Sure, it may be boring for some but it saved me from getting lost a lot.