Original sentence: By the middle of the 20th century, the adoption of the uniform, rectilinear block subsided almost completely, and different layouts prevailed, with random sized and either curvilinear or non-orthogonal blocks and corresponding street patterns.In much of the United States and Canada, the addresses follow a block and lot number system, in which each block of a street is allotted 100 building numbers
Edited sentence: By the middle of the 20th century, the adoption of the uniform, rectilinear block subsides almost completely and more picturesque layouts prevailed, with random sized and either curvilinear or non-orthogonal blocks and corresponding street patterns.In much of the United States and Canada, the addressing systems follow a block and lot number system, in which each block of a street is allotted 100 building numbers