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Monday, March 23, 2009

HOSTEL COLONIAL - CRAZY BUENOS AIRES - UNUSUAL URBAN PLANNING - POST # 1

In Parque Chas (20´in Subway from Hostel Colonial) there are 3 streets, that corner, where some houses have round shapes due to the geometry that the neighborhood demands, where Dublin, Gamarra and Londres are the same street even though there´re 3 different names and 2 people can be in Gandara and Londres streets and be 4 blocks away from eachother at the same time.
It´s quite difficult to understand the logic of a crossing between 2 streets, where 4 corners are located at some place and the other four are 4 blocks away from the first ones. Our mind, used to a simple streets crossing in a transversal way and remain like that all their way long, only allows a crossing of 4 cornes with only one intersection, so if 2 people are in 2 different corners they can meet eachother just by crossing the street. Crazy Buenos Aires!






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