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grid plan
noun
A type of city plan in which streets run at right angles to each other, forming a grid.
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The streets of central Ōsaka are laid out on a grid plan, but the rest of the city is a patchwork of planned grids and rambling streets.
The district is laid out on a grid plan.
Its simple scheme is usually based on the grid plan.
New York's grid plan is a jealous god, and infractions like the Pennsy setback are rare.
Laird also laid out the nucleus of the town on a grid plan.
The new streets and avenues dictated by the grid plan produced an awkward intersection here.
This surface suggests the American Heartland, where towns and farmlands tend to follow a grid plan.
Solidere rebuilt the souks along its historical grid plan, which was supposed to assure continuity.
When Manhattan's grid plan was instated, historical records show that citizens found the lack of place names disorienting.
Generally speaking, these cities shared a grid plan featuring large, open squares defined by a cathedral and other institutional buildings.
So the grid plan sank below the park, largely lost to the sculpted waves and undulations of landscaping.
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