One of the interesting things about street networks is that -- once laid out -- they rarely change in a substantial way. Not unless Haussmann comes along and decides to renovate. That can be a good thing if you get it right like in the case of Philadelphia or Barcelona. But it can also be a bad thing if you're maybe wishing the founders went with design option B.
On that note, here's an interesting set of polar histograms from Geoff Boeing, who is a professor of urban planning and spatial analysis at the University of Southern California, that sorts city street networks by most-ordered/gridded to most-disordered:
