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A simple grid plan from 1908 of Palaio Faliro.
A grid plan from 1799 of Pori, Finland, by Isaac Tillberg.
The city of Adelaide, South Australia was laid out in a grid, surrounded by gardens and parks.

In urban 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.

Two inherent characteristics of the grid plan, frequent intersections and orthogonal geometry, facilitate movement. The geometry helps with orientation and wayfinding and its frequent intersections with the choice and directness of route to desired destinations.

In ancient Rome, the grid plan method of land measurement was called centuriation. The grid plan dates from antiquity and originated in multiple cultures; some of the earliest planned cities were built using grid plans in the Indian subcontinent.

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Grid plan

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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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Grid

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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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Hoddle Grid

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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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Salt Lake City

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growth. Salt Lake City's street grid system is based on a standard compass grid plan, with the southeast corner of Temple Square (the area containing the Salt...

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City block

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orthogonal internal road network, including those based on a grid plan or quasi-grid plan. That typology is prevalent in Japan and China, for example....

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Planned community

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of settlements in South Africa were planned in their early stages and the original town centres still lie in a grid street fashion. Some settlements were...

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Fused grid

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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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Smart grid

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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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Electrical grid

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electrical grid (or electricity network) is an interconnected network for electricity delivery from producers to consumers. Electrical grids consist of...

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State Grid Corporation of China

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State Grid Corporation was involved in a multi-phase smart-grid project for China's electrical grid planned for 2011–2015. China's smart grid efforts...

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Gridlock

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complete standstill". The term originates from a situation possible in a grid plan where intersections are blocked, preventing vehicles from either moving...

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Grid network

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A grid network is a computer network consisting of a number of computer systems connected in a grid topology. In a regular grid topology, each node in...

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Street system of Denver

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Auraria Campus, LoDo, much of downtown, and Five Points, is laid out on a grid plan that is oriented diagonal to the four cardinal directions. The rest of...

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Greenwich Village

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layout is more organic than the planned grid pattern of the 19th century grid plan (based on the Commissioners' Plan of 1811). Greenwich Village was allowed...

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Pythius of Priene

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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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Hippodamus of Miletus

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of European urban planning", and the namesake of the "Hippodamian plan" (grid plan) of city layout, although rectangular city plans were in use by the...

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Timgad

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for representing one of the best extant examples of the grid plan as used in Roman town planning. Timgad was inscribed as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO...

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City

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visible. A system of rectilinear city streets and land plots, known as the grid plan, has been used for millennia in Asia, Europe, and the Americas. The Indus...

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Urban planning

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European urban planning", and the namesake of the "Hippodamian plan" (grid plan) of city layout. The ancient Romans also used orthogonal plans for their cities...

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Wide area synchronous grid

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Sapporo

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land bisecting the central area of the city. The city closely followed a grid plan with streets at right-angles to form city blocks. The continuing expansion...

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The Green Grid

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Power-Usage Plan: AMD, IBM, Rivals To Focus on Efficiency Of Servers, Data Centers". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved June 5, 2013. Green Grid website,...

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Dead end street

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when he criticized the Hippodamian grid: ... but for security in war [the arrangement is more useful if it is planned in] the opposite [manner], as it used...

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Bari

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Murat), the modern heart of the city, which is laid out on a rectangular grid-plan with a promenade on the sea and the major shopping district (the via Sparano...

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List of numbered streets in Manhattan

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them designated in the Commissioners' Plan of 1811. These streets do not run exactly east–west, because the grid plan is aligned with the Hudson River, rather...

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Ordnance Survey National Grid

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Ordnance Survey National Grid reference system (OSGB), also known as British National Grid (BNG), is a system of geographic grid references used in Great...

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Super grid

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storage projects North Sea Offshore Grid Pickens plan Smart grid SuperGrid Unified Smart Grid Energy portal V2G "UHV Grid". Global Energy Interconnection...

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Al Rashidiya

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the south and Mirdif to the east. Local roads in Al Rashidiya follow a grid plan, with even-numbered roads running northeast–southwest, and odd-numbered...

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