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The Surprising Problems With The City Grid - Cheddar Explains
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10:38Now PlayingThe rectangular grid is an ancient city plan and has been used by civilizations for thousands of years. It underpins many of our cities to this day, and has been hailed for its efficiency. But there is a surprising dark side to the city grid. So, what is the darkness that underlies our city grids, and how might the grid be bad for us today?
Further reading:
The Dark Side of the Grid: Power and Urban Design by Jill L. Grant
City on a Grid: How New York Became New York by Gerard Koeppel
Ohio History Central
99 Percent Invisible
The Salt Lake Tribune
Aeon Magazine
The Guardian
Congress for the New Urbanism
Hexagonal Planning in Theory and practice by Eran Ben-Joseph and David Gordon
City Plan by Charles R. Lamb
The Law and Economics of Street Layouts: How a Grid Pattern Benefits a Downtown by Robert C. Ellickson
The Origin and Spread of the Grid-Pattern Town by Dan Stanislawski
History of Public Health in New York City, 1625-1866: Volume 1 by John Duffy
Mythologies of the Grid in the Empire City, 1811-2011 by Reuben S. Rose-Redwood
Did Racists Create the Suburban Nation? by David L. Chappell
Gridded WorldsAn Urban Anthology, American CitiesThe Grid Plan and the Protestant Ethic, by Richard Sennett
Hippodamus and the Planned City By Alfred Burns
Plan and Constitution: Aristotle's Hippodamus: Towards an 'Ostensive' Definition of Spatial Planning by Luigi Mazza
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