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TIL that the town of Why, Arizona was originally known as just "Y" due to the Y-shaped intersection of two roads. It changed its name to "Why" due to an Arizona state law requiring town names to be at least 3 letters long.
Main Post: TIL that the town of Why, Arizona was originally known as just "Y" due to the Y-shaped intersection of two roads. It changed its name to "Why" due to an Arizona state law requiring town names to be at least 3 letters long.
Top Comment: If AZ ups the limit to 6 letters they'll change it to But Why.
Why do we call it town?
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Just a curious one from me. Having lived in Manchester all my life. I’ve always referred to the city centre as simply “town”. I’m in whitefield so technically my town is bury and my city is Manchester, but Bury is “Bury” and Manchester is “Town”.
But the same is true for friends I have from anywhere in and around Manchester. Didsbury, Urmston, Sale, Stockport, Ashton.... If I say, “I’ll meet you in town” we all just know.
But why? Coz it’s not a town.
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Town planners of Australia, why can’t we have more of this?
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Central playground at Jerrim Pl, Kingston Beach TAS
Top Comment: Am Australian town planner. Open space and playgrounds are great but this space isn't very good IMO. It's at the rear of properties, hidden from the street with only narrow entries meaning that it's fairly inaccessible and is not necessarily a safe place because of the lack of "eyes on the street". The catchment that this open space servces would be very small judging by the low density of surrounding development (and gigantic houses) and the "shared backyard" concept is pretty useless when all of the surrounding houses have their own very large backyard. Others have picked up in the thread that Radburn Design Housing tried in Australia to varying success that range from OK to completely abysmal. The approach is about having houses back to front where houses are orientated around small public spaces with front doors facing walkways/open space and back doors facing the street to separate pedestrians and cars. In NSW the government used Radburn designs for public housing in areas like Macquarie Fields/Minto which created massive problems as they broke just about every Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design principle by shielding public spaces from the street, creating dark rat races where criminals could escape/mug people and has been attributed to increases in social problems. It's not necessarily an inherently bad approach but it's an extremely bad approach for concentrated public housing.