New Orleans is justly famous for its vast inventory of historical architecture, representing scores of stylistic influences dating to the French and Spanish colonial eras. Less appreciated is the fact that the Crescent City also retains nearly original colonial urban designs. Two downtown neighborhoods, the French Quarter and Central Business District, are entirely undergirded by colonial-era planning, and dozens of other neighborhoods followed suit even after Americanization. New Orleanians who reside in these areas negotiate these colonial planning decisions in nearly every movement they make, and they reside in a state with as many colonial-era land surveying systems as can be found throughout the United States. This article explains how those patterns fell in place.

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弯月弯的直街

新奥尔良以其庞大的历史建筑资源而闻名，代表了数十个可追溯到法国和西班牙殖民时代的风格影响。鲜为人知的事实是，新月城市还保留了几乎原始的殖民地城市设计。法国区和中央商务区这两个闹市区完全被殖民时期的规划所打乱，甚至在美国化之后，其他数十个街区也纷纷效仿。居住在这些地区的新奥尔良人几乎在每一个动作中都对这些殖民地规划决策进行谈判，他们居住在一个拥有整个美国殖民地土地测量系统的州。本文介绍了这些模式是如何实现的。