What If Manhattan Were Designed Like Paris?

A digital design class at Columbia University has led to some provocative questions about New York City. The work by Charles-Antoine Perrault destabilizes our conception of Manhattan, which we so strongly associate with the street grid. But what if the early city planners had envisioned a city with the grand boulevards of Paris? It happened in Washington D.C. and Detroit, so why not New York?

Source: Untapped Cities