Sentence examples for grid of canals from inspiring English sources

The southern half, the part most reminiscent of Venice or Amsterdam, is cut by a grid of canals and includes many of the city's most familiar landmarks.

Leaving them to their meal, we drove across salt marshes and marveled at the intricate grid of canals made by early farmers to drain marshes and turn them into hayfields.

Unlike central Moscow, where Tsarist-era mansions sit alongside Soviet tower blocks and modern glass business centres, the centre of St Petersburg is a largely homogenous collection of neoclassical buildings, set on a grid of canals.

Feb. 23, 2012: Declaring "now is the time to get the jump on global warming," Mayor Bloomberg announced an ambitious plan Thursday to flood Lower Manhattan, creating a grid of canals and a mass-transit gondola system staffed by mobsters on work release.

Venice-like, the shady streets of Alappuzha (Alleppey) are set around a grid of canals that spill into the watery highways of Kerala.

His plan was based on a rectangular grid of reservoirs, canals, and irrigation channels to control the waters of the river system.

This original part of the city began to take shape in the early 18th century, when Peter, who was enamored of Dutch culture, laid out a grid of intersecting canals that flow into the Neva and hired Western Europe's most celebrated architects to line them with palaces and cathedrals.

This plan was furthered when foundations were laid for Angkor, a scheme based on a grid of reservoirs and canals.

They were instead surrounded by a sprawling urban network, a grid of boulevards, streets and canals that extended far into the surrounding landscape, covering an area larger than modern-day Paris.

Tenochtitlán had a population of about 200,000 people, a bustling marketplace, and a grid of busy roads and canals.

Another complication is the nature of the grid -- more like a network of canals than of roads.