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Originally Posted by Rusty van Reddick
Portland would be NW 10th Avenue (they prefix the quadrant, and streets aren't numbered, only avenues). Seattle would be NW 10th Street, also with prefixed quadrant. SF doesn't use directionals and has few numbered streets and neither does LA. Neither does Vancouver for the most part in its inner city, so what's west coastish, much less "very very" west coast?
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Yes, and out East it would likely be something like "King Street" or "Victoria Avenue" or "George Street" (or "Rue St-Laurent" or "Boulevard René-Lévesque") instead of any permutation of 10th, NW, and Street/Avenue like the Western examples you just listed.
So, you're basically helping prove my point with those extra examples.
This forum being about urbanity and built form, mostly, I think it can be an interesting experiment to try to figure out (as I candidly did in the open there) where pics of random urban fabric are from, by looking at the details. Sure, had I allowed myself to do more research, maybe I would have figured the traffic lights don't merely look 'generally Western', but are instead a Calgary-specific design because of this or that tiny detail. But that wasn't the point.
Oh, and by the way, if you re-read you'll see that the "Sun & Moon Psychic Boutique" sign is what I called "West Coastish", while the numbered street grid I considered (very very) "Western", which is really not the same thing as West Coast(ish). (And yes, I know NYC is a prime example of a numbered grid
It's not like there's a law forcing Western cities to have one, and Eastern cities to not have one.)
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Also, we don't use "plains" in Canada. We speak of "prairies" and Calgary isn't, in my opinion, a prairie city at all. It's a foothills city or even a Rocky Mountain city... or better still, it's a Western Canadian city.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Plains
FYI.