Originally posted by fable:
<STRONG>Hey, you find me Dorothy Parker Square, or the Avenue of Dr. Seuss, or George Gershwin Highway, or William Kapell Boulevard, and I'll back down. I'm not cynical; I'm bitter.
Because other countries esteem their arts, crafts, and sciences enough to name major public works after them, or even put their faces on money. We don't.</STRONG>
In Dubai, the largest city in the United Arab Emirates, it's the opposite to US cities. The streets had names, but they hardly had a street number in the entire city!
This was due to the fast growth of the city, and numbering was on the way, but slow, since it wasn't a great priority
Dubai is a beautiful city although it's modern, I think you would like it. But probably you feel like me, that it's impossible to visit a country who has officialy admitted the Taliban's as Afghanistan's rightful government
together with only Saudi and Iran. (This happened after I'd been there, and is the sad reason why I can't go back there althoug I would like to.)
I Sweden, like in the rest of Europe, it's a custom to name streets, squares etc after artists, scientists or important historical persons. Being used to Europe, I actually found the US system of street "names" more confusing than when the streets have proper names, since the system is the same in all cites. I sort of got confused whether the nice restaurant I went to the other day was on 3rd ave in this city, or if it was the good book store in the city I was in last week that was on the 3rd in that city, if you see what I mean.
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