planning, the grid plan, grid street plan, or gridiron plan is a type of city plan in which streets run at right angles to each other, forming a grid...
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Houston Street and below 155th Street, which put in place the rectangular grid plan of streets and lots that has defined Manhattan on its march uptown until...
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Look up grid or GRID in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Grid, The Grid, or GRID may refer to: Regular grid, a tessellation of space with translational...
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PlanGrid is a construction productivity software designed for onsite construction workers. PlanGrid digitises blueprints. It features version control...
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La Trobe Street the next year), establishing the first formal town plan. This grid of streets, laid out when there were only a few hundred settlers, became...
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City block (redirect from Superblock (urban planning))
block, or simply block is a central element of urban planning and urban design. In a city with a grid system, the block is the smallest group of buildings...
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The smart grid is an enhancement of the 20th century electrical grid, using two-way communications and distributed so-called intelligent devices. Two-way...
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historian Spiro Kostof writes that "The word 'grid' is a convenient, and imprecise, substitute for 'orthogonal planning'. 'Gridiron' in the US implies a pattern...
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Pythius of Priene (section Grid Planning)
and marks an important development of the grid plan in Greek architecture. J.J. Pollitt called Pythius' grid-based design "'order' in an extreme degree"...
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built on a grid plan by the Knights of Malta in the 16th century. The town of Paola, also known as Raħal Ġdid (New Town), is built on a grid plan by the Grand...
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