Bayou more pics part 1
@kschmidt - i've never heard about Mayon region before. i googled it and i have found some amazing pics. It would be an interesting place to visit. 90% of european cities have irregular street networks because of the medieval ages in wich most of them started developing. My home town was built on an ancient roman city - Tomis. But the region - Dobrogea was ravaged by the barbarian invasions and after that the many wars between russians and turks. The last turkish-russian war in the Balkans literally erased the small fisherman town of Kostence (nowadays Constanta). So the turkish sultan Abdul Medgid gave huge plots of land to british, american, french and italian companies to rebuild the cities and build rail lines. this happened at the end of the 1800s. the majority of the workers were foreigners: british, americans, italians, greeks, bulgarians, turks, arabians, etc. an of course most of them ended up settling here. So the city lay out is more north american, and same with all the cities in my region. In many ways my region's development resembled what happened in the USA. People from all over the world coming and settling here. Even the street names were in english. After the region was given to Romania, they changed the street names to romanian ones, mostly. And then romanian colonists came and settled down along wth the other inhabitans. And beacuse of this histroy of living together despite race or religion we never had any conflcits on those issues.
Here's one of Fords' showrooms in my city in 1928.
And here's a pic from the old port district
@whiteshark365 - because of the water. most settlements tend to be developed near water. i'm not that good on starting the build on a piece of land without the ocean/lake/sea/river
@raynev1 @philforhockey51 - thanks for the sugestions , i'll take 'em in consideration #################################################################################################################################let's get back to Bayou with some more pics 
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