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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City block (redirect from Superblock (urban planning))
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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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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Salt Lake City (redirect from Grid plan (Salt Lake City))
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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La Trobe Street the next year), establishing the first formal town plan. This grid of streets, laid out when there were only a few hundred settlers, became...
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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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electrical grid (or electricity network) is an interconnected network for electricity delivery from producers to consumers. Electrical grids consist 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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Pythius of Priene (section Grid Planning)
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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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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Street system of Denver (section The diagonal grid)
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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Greenwich Village (section Grid plan)
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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Hippodamus of Miletus (redirect from Hippodamian plan)
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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when he criticized the Hippodamian grid: ... but for security in war [the arrangement is more useful if it is planned in] the opposite [manner], as it used...
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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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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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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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