Grid plan

A grid plan is the first basic plan in urban planning. It is a type of city plan in which streets run at right angles to each other, forming a grid. In ancient Rome a grid plan method of land measurement was called a centuriation.

Early grid-plans were developed in Indus Valley civilization. It was also widely used in ancient Greece.Michael Gagarin; Elaine Fantham, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome, Vol. 5 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010), p. 154

 Related pages 
 Sector model
 Multiple nuclei model
 Concentric zone model
 Linear city model

 References 

 Other websites 
 Historical Society of Pennsylvania
 The Great American Grid 

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