What is Grid plan?
[[File:Windermere.jpg|right|thumb|325px|the grid plan of [[Windermere, Florida]]]] A '''grid plan''' is the first basic [[wikt:plan|plan]] in [[urban planning]]. It is a type of [[city]] plan in which streets run at [[right angles]] to each other, forming a [[wikt:grid|grid]]. In [[ancient Rome]] a grid plan method of [[Surveying|land measurement]] was called a [[centuriation]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://corinth.sas.upenn.edu/vesp.html |title=Colonia Iulia Flavia Augusta Corinthiensis, AD 70s (Reign of Vespasian) |author= |date= |website= |publisher=David Gilman Romano and the Corinth Computer Project |accessdate=6 April 2015}}</ref> Early grid-plans were developed in [[Indus Valley civilization]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Senville|first=Wayne|date=2010-03-29|title=Origins of the Street Grid|url=https://plannersweb.com/2010/03/origins-of-the-street-grid/|access-date=2024-07-21|website=PlannersWeb|language=en}}</ref> It was also widely used in [[ancient Greece]].<ref>Michael Gagarin; Elaine Fantham, ''The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome'', Vol. 5 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010), p. 154</ref> == Related pages == * [[Sector model]] * [[Multiple nuclei model]] * [[Concentric zone model]] * [[Linear city model]] == References == {{reflist}} == Other websites == * [http://www.hsp.org Historical Society of Pennsylvania] * [http://www.thegreatamericangrid.com The Great American Grid] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180820234310/http://www.thegreatamericangrid.com/ |date=2018-08-20 }} [[Category:Urban planning]] [[Category:Urban design]] {{transport-stub}}