Hasta La Ideas

NPR has this cool cool article, about how Odd Things Happen When You Chop Up Cities And Stack Them Sideways.

New York, on the other hand … hey, I live there, I love it, it amazes me. Here’s what it looks like from above … but anatomically … I donno. Take away the bums, the fashionistas, the food carts, the cabs, the colors, the smells, the sounds, cut it up and stack it on a table, New York’s grid system seems more than a little monotonous.