Grid plan facts for kids

A grid plan is the first basic plan in urban planning. It was developed in ancient Greece.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.

Images for kids

A simple grid plan from 1908 of Palaio Faliro.
A grid plan from 1799 of Pori, Finland, by Isaac Tillberg.
The city of Adelaide, South Australia was laid out in a grid, surrounded by gardens and parks.
The grid plan of Miletus in the Classical period
Bastide schema in Gascony
The map of St. Petersburg (1717). The grid of 'lines' and 'prospekts' is seen across the whole rectangular Vasilyevsky Island, while actually only the eastern part was built
Barcelona
A one km2 sector in Milton Keynes framed by major roads in a grid configuration. The road network within the sector uses cul-de-sac streets complemented by bike and foot paths which connect the entire sector and beyond.
In a numbered grid system, adding an extra street can cause confusion
Surveyor's plan of Salt Lake City, circa 1870s - an example of a typical, uniform, square-grid street network
A 2×2 km square segment of the street network of Paris that often, and erroneously, is characterized as a grid. It shows the highly irregular city blocks and the range of street orientations, both common attributes of many historic cities
Schematic plan of Hoddle's allotments for the village of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, March 1837
Grid street plan Comparison in the Philippines