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The grid and its difficulties Criticism of the grid and its difficulties was voiced from the start. Olmsted himself noted several problems that arose from the fixed dimensions of the city’s blocks: the impossibility of producing sites for very large buildings and campuses; issues of daylighting; the difficulty of creating systems of formal and symbolic hierarchy within the field of uniformity. Michael Sorkin, 20 Minutes in Manhattan Urban Street Network Orientation gridsbuilding