urban grid
Streetscape of squares
An urban grid is a city street layout where roads intersect at right angles, forming a pattern of rectangular blocks.
The grid pattern, common in planned cities, simplifies navigation and land division: The urban grid of Manhattan makes addresses easy to find.
Critics note it ignores topography and can feel monotonous.
- streetsPublic urban ways
- city blocksUrban land parcels
- blocksObstructs or sections
- street cornerWhere two roads intersect
- intersectionPoint where paths meet
traffic light · downtown · city center · pavement · sidewalk · concrete · concrete jungle · cityscape · layout · planning · zoning · density · traffic · rush hour · avenues · one-way street · corners · sprawl
- urban planningcity planning, zoning map, master plans, zones, zoning reform
- Teotihuacanfeathered serpent, mural paintings, tunnel system, cave system
- gridsmatrix, lattice, mesh, raster, checkerboard
- Aztec structurespyramid, stepped pyramid, ball court, causeway, aqueduct
- Michigan CitiesDetroit, Ann Arbor, Grand Rapids, Lansing, Kalamazoo
urban gridwilderness
Uncultivated, uninhabited natural region
dirt roads · rural landscape · rural countryside · pastoral landscape · backcountry roads
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