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Originally Posted by hammersklavier
It isn't a street per se, but Thomas Holme's original plan for Philadelphia is by far the most influential thing not on this list. The basic idea, a townsite arranged around a single central square where the major public buildings would be set, has been stamped out across hundreds and hundreds of townsites all across this country. To give a sense of how deeply influential Holme's ideas were, that's Indianapolis' basic plat, to name just one city.
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The Philadelphia city layout was already covered, in the "10 Towns that Changed America" episode. This episode seems to concentrate more on single streets than street patterns.