Let the directions of your streets and alleys be laid down on the lines of division between the quarters of two winds. On this principle of arrangement the disagreeable force of the winds will be shut out from dwellings and lines of houses.

— Vitruvius De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (-15)

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