[osdiab]

While navigability of grids is nice, I kinda like it when cities have haphazard street layouts—older cities with chaotic street grids tend to be easier to walk around in (assuming you know where you're going) with slower traffic and smaller streets, not as loud since sound doesn't carry through all the buildings that block streets off (New York is loud almost everywhere, Tokyo has countless quiet neighborhoods seconds from even Shibuya Scramble), and as the author mentioned, instill a sense of adventure.

But maybe there's ways of getting these things while still maintaining street navigability—narrow streets with not necessarily rail straight, but still well-structured grids for the major streets, and maybe non-uniform/unstructred alleys could work to get both in one system.

[theandrewbailey]

Pittsburgh is kind of like that. It wants to be grid based, but it just can't with the geography it's given. There's lots of small areas that have only a few ways in and out, due to it being on the top/bottom/side of a hill.

https://www.google.com/maps/@40.439071,-80,13z

[rfg34te4]

You might be interested in this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fused_grid

[JumpCrisscross]

I like Manhattan's compromise. Select neighborhoods which eternally trap the tourists in their labyrinth with a nice, neat grid for the commercial districts.