Comments on: Los Angeles Seems to be Lacking Squares http://www.badmenagerie.com/los-angeles-seems-to-be-lacking-squares/ In Which The Menagerie Misbehaves Sun, 13 Mar 2016 04:05:30 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.4.2 By: SL Huang (aka MathPencil) http://www.badmenagerie.com/los-angeles-seems-to-be-lacking-squares/#comment-608 Mon, 11 May 2015 16:44:23 +0000 http://www.slhuang.com/blog/?p=2335#comment-608 Huh! That sounds very logical! Hmm….

I love historical speculation like this. 😀

]]> By: donkeh http://www.badmenagerie.com/los-angeles-seems-to-be-lacking-squares/#comment-603 Mon, 11 May 2015 06:12:15 +0000 http://www.slhuang.com/blog/?p=2335#comment-603 Weren’t squares historically for people to gather for public events? The East has older cities. Maybe the West Coast has fewer squares because modernity has decreased the need or motivation for the community to physically gather. It’s gotten to a point we just all meet each other online (like now). Dunno. Just speculating …

]]> By: SL Huang (aka MathPencil) http://www.badmenagerie.com/los-angeles-seems-to-be-lacking-squares/#comment-602 Mon, 11 May 2015 04:30:25 +0000 http://www.slhuang.com/blog/?p=2335#comment-602 Yup, I’ve lived in or near both those cities, too! Even the little dinky towns near where I grew up has a main square.

]]> By: Michelle A http://www.badmenagerie.com/los-angeles-seems-to-be-lacking-squares/#comment-601 Mon, 11 May 2015 03:51:00 +0000 http://www.slhuang.com/blog/?p=2335#comment-601 Let’s see: Boston has Kenmore Square, Copley Square, Government Center which is kind of like a square, Park Square…

What do we have in New York…? Times Square, Gramercy, Herald, Union, Lincoln, Pershing, Washington, Duffy, Tompkins. We probably have some out in the boroughs, too, but all of those are in Manhattan.

]]> By: CuriousPuppy http://www.badmenagerie.com/los-angeles-seems-to-be-lacking-squares/#comment-600 Sun, 10 May 2015 20:49:17 +0000 http://www.slhuang.com/blog/?p=2335#comment-600 I don’t think Seattle is a big square city, either. Unless you count all the Starbucks. They’re usually squares full of people.

We also lack roundabouts…we have some, but mostly we have little planter circles in the middle of intersections to eff with us. Maybe it’s a west coast thing, this lack of proper shapes. We’re too free-spirited out here to be restricted by geometry.

]]> By: SL Huang (aka MathPencil) http://www.badmenagerie.com/los-angeles-seems-to-be-lacking-squares/#comment-599 Sun, 10 May 2015 17:58:03 +0000 http://www.slhuang.com/blog/?p=2335#comment-599 There are roundabouts! There’s one in the Santa Monica area, around 26th street I think?, that I run into all the time.

Hmm. I guess there aren’t many. But I guess I’m not used to running into more than the occasional roundabout…. 😉

(Also not used to calling them roundabouts! I grew up saying traffic circle. :D)

]]> By: donkeh http://www.badmenagerie.com/los-angeles-seems-to-be-lacking-squares/#comment-598 Sun, 10 May 2015 17:09:34 +0000 http://www.slhuang.com/blog/?p=2335#comment-598 Another map thingie that LA lacks is roundabouts. There is one in Long Beach, and the last time I got into accident was when I was there. There you go, no squares, no circles. Sorta. Do we have triangles?

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