Its low-rise, high-density mixed-use cityscape and intricate street network have emerged through a similar Dharaviesque logic.
An architectural landscape photograph laid the blueprint for this intricate new street art mural that just went up on the famed Houston Bowery Wall in Manhattan.
A trip over an intricate maze of streets in Queens and Brooklyn leads him into lower Manhattan, the Holland Tunnel and finally Interstate 78, all of which takes him about 75 minutes.
India does have sadhus, people dressed up Shivji's, autorickshas, bustling streets, intricate jewelry and textiles, sacred geometry, a myriad of dance styles and colors galore.
That means fans of intricate rhyme schemes, street-life voyeurs and, of course, critics.
Along Prospect Park South, for example, green malls divide wide boulevards that were lined with intricate wrought-iron street lamps and Norway maples.
A FEW years ago, Katherine Dieckmann, a screenwriter, director and longtime West Village resident, drew her husband, Brian Wallis, an intricate map of street parking spots in their neighborhood, fully annotated with dates, hours and idiosyncratic commentary.
It was another intricate two-way street: AOL first paid PurchasePro about $9 million and the two companies agreed to form a joint Web site that would share advertising and sales revenue.
Excavations have also revealed intricate house and street plans; a basic unit consisted of rooms built around a central courtyard, with an arcade of arches on one side of the courtyard being the principal means of access.
The dual protagonists of this gripping novel, set during the Second World War, are the blind daughter of a Parisian locksmith who builds an intricate model of the streets to help her navigate her world and a German orphan whose uncanny aptitude for mechanics makes him valuable to the Nazi war effort.
