Some people apparently dislike these techniques. To each his own, but I like the Manhattan method. In fact, in the SolderSmoke Direct Conversion project, we are recommending the use of Manhattan circuit board tecniques. With Manhattan, you get a lot flexibility. At one point, for example, the High School students told us that they had forgotten to put a needed pad on the board. No problem! Just glue in a new one. Or if you put in one too many, just take one off.
You also keep all the circuitry and all the connections on one side of the board. This facilitates repair or modification. This kind of thing is not so easy when you have components on one side of the board and the connections on the other side. You spend a lot of time flipping boards over, breaking wires, trying to remember what goes where. Also, because the pads push the connections a couple of millimeters above the ground plane, I find that Manhattan technique actually reduces the chances for an accidental short to ground.
There has been some discussion of where the term "Manhattan style" comes from. Having been born on Manhattan island, I too wonder about the origin of the term. Some see it as the result of the grid pattern (like Manhatten's street grid) that results from the rectangular or square pads that are often used. Others point to the vertical parts placement that we see when looking at a board from the side -- the parts look like the skyline of Manhattan. Either explanation, I think, works.
Here is a Manhattan-style board I recently built in the Dominican Republic for my homebrew 15-10 meter SSB transceiver. I couldn't find any Gorilla glue here, so I went with Loctite Coqui. Same stuff. Latin American super glue!
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