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Grid plans (City planning)

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Topical headingGrid plans (City planning)
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Variant(s)Chessboard plans (City planning)
Grid street plans
Gridiron plans (City planning)
Orthogonal plans
Urban grids
See alsoCity planning
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Streets--Design and construction
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Found inWork cat.: 2017025847: Syntax of city space, 2017: CIP t.p. (American urban grids) galley (regular grid has been a standard part of the town planning vocabulary in human settlements for more than 4,500 years)
A&AT, May 26, 2017 (grid plan; variants: chessboard plan, gridiron plan, orthogonal plan)
Avery index online, May 26, 2017 (subjects: grid plan cities)
Britannica online, May 26, 2017 (under Latin American architecture: Cholula is a pre-Columbian grid city; under Western architecture/Urban design/17th century: gridiron plan; gridiron pattern)
Southeastern geography (via Project Muse), November 1979: p. 69 (town plans based upon a regular grid pattern of right-angled intersecting streets; fall line towns of Augusta, Macon, and Columbus were all developed according to a regular grid plan)
Wikipedia, May 26, 2017 (Grid plan; 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)