You're so right about connecting sections dvlenk and about the props :)
Koosie, I just love what you sketched out! I love the quaint feel to the block. 

A piece of an actual map would be a good thing to work off of. What I sketched out in the massing model I made is what came to my mind after studying maps of old european towns, actually, there's an are somewhat simiar to that in the town where I grew up. It is more of a main square and avenue kind of a layout.

You guys should see this, just uploaded on rendo galleries yesterday, I stumbled over browsing the galleries: http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=1433259&member

I vote we start on a block of the type that koosie sketched out first.
We need to decide on the block sizes, and whether we want to work in metric or english units. (It doesn't matter to me, I worked half of my life in metric, the other in feet, so it's a tossup)  And, it's not that hard to convert between the two...

Perhaps if we took a general street layout from a real city map or lay out several blocks at once we could get around the 'square' look by slicing the sections around mapped city blocks, whichever shape they are.  You guys probably already know most old European towns are not square... :)

Koosie, you seem to know a lot about old urban layouts! Is it a hobby or do you do some of that for living too?

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