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The phrase "a grid of streets" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a layout of streets that intersect at right angles, forming a grid-like pattern, often found in urban planning.
Example: "The city was designed with a grid of streets, making navigation easy for residents and visitors alike."
Alternatives: "a network of streets" or "a layout of streets".
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The rest of the village is made up mostly of a grid of streets with modest wood-framed houses on small lots.
While extending a grid of streets through the site might make good planning sense, limiting it to pedestrians is essential, given the extraordinary density of development planned.
The area's leafiest section is east of White Plains Road and south of Nereid Avenue, on a grid of streets tilted 45 degrees on the map from the rest of the neighborhood.
De Ribas resolved to build a city that (unlike his native Naples) would be constructed on rational lines, with a grid of streets, wide avenues and modern public buildings.
In urban areas, you see a grid of streets without names -- even in Manhattan, where it's nice to know that you are merging onto the F.D.R. Drive and not into the Lincoln Tunnel.
His plan consisted of a grid of streets that would unite the old city with seven peripheral villages (which later became integral Barcelona neighbourhoods such as Gràcia and Sarrià).
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At the back of the main gallery, a grid of street photographs by Ken Domon, Tadahiko Hayashi and Ihee Kimura evokes Tokyo as a beleaguered city of shell-shocked survivors.
One group favored a grid of straight streets.
Houses sit on a grid of unpaved streets.
Before that, it was a malaria-ridden outpost; a grid of grimy streets, with just one church, on the forgotten fringes of the Ottoman Empire.
The neighborhood is arranged on a grid of placid streets; teeny front yards are well kept and copiously adorned this time of year with Christmas lights and decorations.
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