by Case » Sat Jul 14, 2007 10:46 am
TimeTravel123456789 wrote:1. Was the construction intentionally built that way?
Stonehenge? No doubt. Winter Solstice was quite important as a calendar marking in the year to ancient civilizations.
New York streets? It must have been a hip design thing a the time to match streets to map lines (north-south, east-west). I doubt the rising or setting sun has anything to with it.
TimeTravel123456789 wrote:2. In theory, would not every city in the world have a street alignment with some sort of similar effect?
It seems to be an American thing to lay down street lanes like that. The only European city with long straight street lanes (that I know of) is Paris, but those streets do not go north-south or east-west, but at some other angle. All other streets make lots of curves, thus not giving a construction for sunlight to pass through.
[quote="TimeTravel123456789"]1. Was the construction intentionally built that way?[/quote]Stonehenge? No doubt. Winter Solstice was quite important as a calendar marking in the year to ancient civilizations.
New York streets? It must have been a hip design thing a the time to match streets to map lines (north-south, east-west). I doubt the rising or setting sun has anything to with it.
[quote="TimeTravel123456789"]2. In theory, would not every city in the world have a street alignment with some sort of similar effect?[/quote]It seems to be an American thing to lay down street lanes like that. The only European city with long straight street lanes (that I know of) is Paris, but those streets do not go north-south or east-west, but at some other angle. All other streets make lots of curves, thus not giving a construction for sunlight to pass through.