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    planning, the 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...
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    Houston Street and below 155th Street, which put in place the rectangular grid plan of streets and lots that has defined Manhattan on its march uptown until...
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  • Look up grid or GRID in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Grid, The Grid, or GRID may refer to: Regular grid, a tessellation of space with translational...
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    PlanGrid is a construction productivity software designed for onsite construction workers. PlanGrid digitises blueprints. It features version control...
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    grid established in the first survey of Melbourne conducted by Robert Russell (architect) in 1836, establishing the first formal town plan. This grid...
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    block, or simply block is a central element of urban planning and urban design. In a city with a grid system, the block is the smallest group of buildings...
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    historian Spiro Kostof writes that "The word 'grid' is a convenient, and imprecise, substitute for 'orthogonal planning'. 'Gridiron' in the US implies a pattern...
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    built on a grid plan by the Knights of Malta in the 16th century. The town of Paola, also known as Raħal Ġdid (New Town), is built on a grid plan by the Grand...
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    The smart grid is an enhancement of the 20th century electrical grid, using two-way communications and distributed so-called intelligent devices. Two-way...
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    growth. Salt Lake City's street grid system is based on a standard compass grid plan, with the southeast corner of Temple Square (the area containing the Salt...
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    A grid network is a computer network consisting of a number of computer systems connected in a grid topology. In a regular grid topology, each node in...
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    electrical grid (or electricity network) is an interconnected network for electricity delivery from producers to consumers. Electrical grids consist of...
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  • of European urban planning", and the namesake of the "Hippodamian plan" (grid plan) of city layout, although rectangular city plans were in use by the...
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    for representing one of the best extant examples of the grid plan as used in Roman town planning. Timgad was inscribed as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO...
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    Auraria Campus, LoDo, much of downtown, and Five Points, is laid out on a grid plan that is oriented diagonal to the four cardinal directions. The rest of...
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    State Grid Corporation was involved in a multi-phase smart-grid project for China's electrical grid planned for 2011–2015. China's smart grid efforts...
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    Gridlock (redirect from Grid Lock)
    complete standstill. The term originates from a situation possible in a grid plan where intersections are blocked, preventing vehicles from either moving...
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    and marks an important development of the grid plan in Greek architecture. J.J. Pollitt called Pythius' grid-based design "'order' in an extreme degree"...
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    layout is more organic than the planned grid pattern of the 19th century grid plan (based on the Commissioners' Plan of 1811). Greenwich Village was allowed...
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    European urban planning", and the namesake of the "Hippodamian plan" (grid plan) of city layout. The ancient Romans also used orthogonal plans for their cities...
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    storage projects North Sea Offshore Grid Pickens plan Smart grid SuperGrid Unified Smart Grid Energy portal V2G "UHV Grid". Global Energy Interconnection...
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    City (section Urban planning)
    visible. A system of rectilinear city streets and land plots, known as the grid plan, has been used for millennia in Asia, Europe, and the Americas. The Indus...
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  • polygons Geodesic grid Spatial index Grid plan Grid reference Geocode hex map quadrilateralized spherical cube Quadtree R-tree Alpha-numeric grid Utility pole#Coordinates...
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    A wide area synchronous grid (also called an "interconnection" in North America) is a three-phase electric power grid that has regional scale or greater...
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    Ishikari Subprefecture. Roadways in the urban district are laid to make a grid plan. The western and southern parts of Sapporo are occupied by a number of...
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    Independence, the first mayor of Austin, Texas, and the designer of its downtown grid plan. He was born in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, United States, in 1800...
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    them designated in the Commissioners' Plan of 1811. These streets do not run exactly east–west, because the grid plan is aligned with the Hudson River, rather...
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  • National Grid plc is a British multinational electricity and gas utility company headquartered in London, England. Its principal activities are in the...
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  • Green Grids Initiative — One Sun, One World, One Grid (GGI — OSOWOG) is an initiative by the International Solar Alliance (ISA), India, France and United...
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    Murat), the modern heart of the city, which is laid out on a rectangular grid-plan with a promenade on the sea and the major shopping district (the via Sparano...
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