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There's a few possibilities. The King probably wouldn't demolish your house but there are fair odds you'd be in another noble's territory, rivers were very popular as borders for good reason, so if the land charter said "East of the river is Count Blowhard's territory" you just gave a free...

Now you're just attributing to me strawman arguments I didn't make, and reaching ridiculous levels of pedantry in hopes of snagging a gotcha. I'm unimpressed that you're now reaching for "You're only 99% right." It was in fact a problem, it's well known that bridges tended to interfere with...

And now you're making up facts along with the bad faith. The fact is you already acknowledged you knew the river went around the city and presented maps with that part outside the borders as well as maps that represented it after the channel was filled to deceive readers. Of course the fact...

Ah, so you are making a bad-faith argument instead then. The point ---> Your head ---> You're just nitpicking details in bad faith at this point for some reason. Was the city butted right up onshore along every part of Le Grands Boulevards? No, but I didn't say that. Did the Seine go...

If you looked as far as page two instead of quitting on the first page you'd have seen it. All the maps you looked at are wrong, or more specifically not zoomed out enough and too modern. First, you can see how your own smaller map fits neatly over those islands in the tributary while Le...

Pretty obviously, this was all built on one side of the river, with a small later expansion across once Rome got so large and powerful that there was simply no trader planning to bypass it. Even then the fact that 90% of the city is on one side of the river is pretty telling as to how cities...

City design is one of the few places I think Tolkien actually dropped the ball (not too surprising, the guy did his research but nobody can know everything). He had a tendency to map out cities modern-style, on both sides of a river with bridges in between, but in medieval architecture, this...