Sentence examples for gridiron plan from inspiring English sources

In contrast to the Old Town's medieval herringbone street pattern, it was rigidly structured on the gridiron plan, with three parallel wide roads (Princes street, George street and Queen street) running east to west while north-south ran the main thoroughfare and minor streets.

The gridiron plan, building forms and the architectural detailing would be copied by many smaller towns, although rendered in locally quarried materials.

Civil Lines is the central business district of the city and is famous for its urban setting, gridiron plan roads and high rise buildings.

Scotland also produced one of the major figures in urban planning in sociologist Patrick Geddes (1854 1932), who developed the concept of conurbation, and discarded the idea of "sweeping clearances" to remove existing housing and the imposition of the gridiron plan, in favour of "conservative surgery": retaining the best buildings in an area and removing the worst.

In Glasgow, with its central gridiron plan, this followed the practice in the United States of filling up entire blocks and building steel framed buildings as high as the fire marshal would allow, as in the heavily American-influenced Union Bank building (1924) at St Vincent Street.

Laid out in contemporary 19th-century style, with broad avenues, tree-lined squares, parks, and gardens, it has a gridiron street plan.

The Roman legacy of a gridiron town plan is preserved in many northern centres (e.g., in Barcelona and Zaragoza) but has been largely obliterated in the cities of the south and east by Muslim urban elements.

Of course, there is a chance that visitors will be misled into thinking that the house was designed to front 141st Street, even though the gridiron street plan was drawn up a decade after the Grange was built.

Mr. Bloomberg, who prides himself on innovation, thus joins a longstanding club of city fathers, city mothers, traffic planners, busybodies and innovators who have been reckoning for almost 200 years with a gridiron street plan bisected diagonally by the meandering route of the Bloomingdale Road, an old country byway.

The Rock found himself at the center of family films like Gridiron Gang, The Game Plan and Race to Witch Mountain.

He has since appeared in several films, including The Rundown, Be Cool, Walking Tall, Gridiron Gang, The Game Plan, Get Smart, Race to Witch Mountain, Planet 51, Tooth Fairy, Doom, The Other Guys, Faster, Fast Five, and Fast & Furious 6.