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The Surprising Problems With The City Grid - Cheddar Explains

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The 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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Cheddar ExplainsThe Dark SideGrid PowerUrban DesignJill L Grant CityNew Urbanism Hexagonal PlanningEran Ben-JosephDavid Gordon City Plan

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