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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Agree. Why don't we compare DC to Paris while we're at it? Absurd exercise.[/quote] DC was modeled after Paris, not saying the cities are anything alike these days, but historically there is a connection in terms of how the older streets are laid out spirally out of downtown.[/quote] actually DC was modeled more after Versailles - which PS L'Enfant was intimately familiar with. DC is nothing at all like Paris circa 1800 which had a medieval layout of haphazard narrow streets. To the extent it share the wide boulevards, thats because Paris was rebuilt by Haussman in the late 19th C. Also the height limit makes some blocks of DC have a more Parisian feel than other US cities. So it is a bit like Paris, but for different reasons. [/quote]
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