#its a grid system motha fucka

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Also that’s San Francisco. The tall buildings are where the most rock is to build on. In a highly seismically unstable city, located near a fault line, most structures in the area aren’t built higher than 2-3 stories.

New York city also has concentrations of taller buildings but much more spread out over manhattan island.

There be devils at work here