One, a satellite view of the city taken on Sept. 12, shows what seems like a small campfire's worth of smoke rising from infinite grids of city blocks and snaking waterways.
In a related article in the prestigious journal Science, researchers have discovered that the connections in the brain are highly organized, the brain's structure is like a grid of city wiring, the neurons traversing in all directions.
The architects have created a new kind of social organism, one that can make the clumsy cobblestone grids of ancient cities look as uninviting as prehistoric cave life.
It is built where the two grids of the city converge and you can feel in the apartment the struggle of the grid.
In 2003, he created a deck of playing cards featuring maps of all nuclear-capable nations, rescaling the maps so that each of the sixty-seven nations was the same size; the following year, he took the subway grids of dozens of cities — Tokyo, Berlin, Shanghai, Madrid — and fit them to a single scale, revealing distinctions that weren't as visible before.
"It's hard to ignore the beauty of the hills and how they somehow clash with the grid of the city," Mr. Dykers said.
Twice a year, either side of the summer solstice, the setting sun is perfectly aligned with the grid of New York city streets.
The square shape lends a symmetry for landscapes that echoes the peculiar grid of the city and also makes a natural frame for street portraits.
Outside the park, to locate yourself within the grid of the city, you need to know your coordinates -- an avenue and a cross street.
In the sprawling grid of Sadr City, where battles between militants and American soldiers charred entire blocks, a neighborhood of one million people is slowly re-emerging from under the hand of conservative clerics and black-clad members of Shiite militias.
