Three more suburbs of Mont-Valin
1. Fieldsborough once had fields. Not any more. The city planners have taken Mayor Brownstone's demands very seriously : as little grid as possible !
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4. Although there are still pockets of griddy resistance here and there.
5. Not wanting to be outdone, Aldergrove (where the groves of alders have long since disappeared) also tried its best to comply :
6. Although building diagonally still escapes the vast majority of contractors.
6. There too, as you can see above, a few farms hang on. But it's a losing battle,
7. The MacKinnon flower farm. (Imagine living there in the spring and summer, perfumes wafting on the breeze... and the deafening buzz of buzzy bees.)
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10. Last but not least, the further away from Mont-Valin and Middletown, Elmsborough has seen its growth shaped by the railway that goes through it, forcing the planners to give up a little on their ungridding fervor.
11. But they still made a valiant effort.
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13.However commerce and some mansions owners still like a good, simple grid...
14. The school and one of the town's clinics :
14. There is one medium shopping center, at the edge of town...
15. ... but the Ste Ermenegilde church hasn't ceded an inch of its propriety -- the cemetery has been relocated, though, and the space converted to the town plaza.
16 Many ancient farmhouses have been converted :
17.The last big farm, half of what it was in its glory days, before the railway came :
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