grid plan
Perpendicular street arrangement
A grid plan is an urban layout where streets intersect at right angles, forming rectangular blocks.
The pattern appears in cities worldwide, from ancient Roman settlements to Manhattan.
Grid plans simplify navigation and property division but can ignore natural terrain: The city's grid plan made addresses easy to find but created brutal hills on north-south streets.
- HaussmannizationComprehensive city modernization program
- city blockUrban land parcel
- boulevardBroad, tree-lined street
- streetPublic urban roadway
- town squareCentral civic space
graticule · urban design · avenue · checkerboard pattern · city · zoning · walkability · William Penn · New York City · lots · land use · schematic · connectivity · rectangular · right angles · straight lines · squares · civic
- floor plansfloorplan, layout, blueprint, elevation, schematic
- urban historycity walls, urban renewal, ancient cities, landmarks, city gates
- ancient citiesAthens, Rome, Jerusalem, Sparta, Damascus