The original model for the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago was Venice, not Beaux-Arts Paris or Renaissance Rome.
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Streets seem to define the way in which urban settlements take shape. Still, cities are put together in many different ways.
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Have you ever looked with a little care at the plan of the 1893 Chicago Exposition?
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The Flatiron Building stands as an exception to the characteristic skyscrapers of New York, with their tower shafts and iconographic tops.
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When Juan de Garay founded the city in 1580 he distributed land on a regular square grid roughly 130 by 130 meters.
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Some buildings grow, others shrink. And it's quite interesting to follow their transformations as they track cultural (social, political) and physical transformations in the city.
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You may not believe this, but as that the Casa Rosada was growing to its present dimensions, at the opposite end of the square the Cabildo of Buenos Aires was shrinking at about the same rate.
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In Buenos Aires, the National Congress is at the western end of Avenida de Mayo--the central axis of the city--with the Government House at the other end.
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Belgrano to the north and Flores to the west were still independent towns, separated from the core by a largely rural landscape and connected by road and rail.
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The names explicitly refer to the three high points around Boston.
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