“I lived east and south and bit of the Old Town...It was a heavily crosshatched street--clutch by clutch of architecture broken by alterity, even in a few spots house-by-house. The local buildings are taller by a floor or three than the others, so Besz juts up semiregularly and the roofscape is almost a machicolation”
Like the two towns in the novel, Chapel Hill has several buildings that appear to be from completely different areas. In this photo, you see an old house juxtaposed with a brand new, modern looking building. It almost seems as if the newer architect completely disregarded the surrounding buildings, yielding the result of “crosshatching” at various points on campus.
This compares to the two cities in the novel, in that the architects there literally disregarded all surroundings and “unsaw” the previous buildings, resulting in an awkward skyline.
To state the obvious, the situation is very different in that Chapel Hill is not “two cities” but one city that has poor planning and is constantly under construction.
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