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The rectangular grid is an ancient city plan and has been used by civilizations for thousands of years. It underpins many of our cities to this day, and has been hailed for its efficiency. But there is a surprising dark side to the city grid. So, what is the darkness that underlies our city grids, and how might the grid be bad for us today?
Further reading:
The Dark Side of the Grid: Power and Urban Design by Jill L. Grant https://www.researchgate.net/publication/248995842_The_Dark_Side_of_the_Grid_Power_and_Urban_Design
City on a Grid: How New York Became New York by Gerard Koeppel https://books.google.com/books?id=CpLSDQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
Ohio History Central https://ohiohistorycentral.org/w/Land_Ordinance_of_1785
99 Percent Invisible https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/plat-of-zion/
The Salt Lake Tribune https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2019/07/21/commentary-pioneer-day/
Aeon Magazine https://aeon.co/essays/why-boring-streets-make-pedestrians-stressed-and-unhappy
The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/mar/22/story-of-cities-7-philadelphia-grid-pennsylvania-william-penn-america-urban-dream https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/sep/10/barcelonas-car-free-superblocks-could-save-hundreds-of-lives
Congress for the New Urbanism https://www.cnu.org/publicsquare/2017/11/13/fight-global-climate-change-fight-global-sprawl
Hexagonal Planning in Theory and practice by Eran Ben-Joseph and David Gordon http://web.mit.edu/ebj/www/Hexagonal.pdf
City Plan by Charles R. Lamb http://urbanplanning.library.cornell.edu/DOCS/lamb.htm
The Law and Economics of Street Layouts: How a Grid Pattern Benefits a Downtown by Robert C. Ellickson https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5802&context=fss_papers
The Origin and Spread of the Grid-Pattern Town by Dan Stanislawski https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/211076.pdf?seq=1
History of Public Health in New York City, 1625-1866: Volume 1 by John Duffy https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7758/9781610441643
Mythologies of the Grid in the Empire City, 1811-2011 by Reuben S. Rose-Redwood https://www.jstor.org/stable/41303641?seq=1
Did Racists Create the Suburban Nation? by David L. Chappell https://www.jstor.org/stable/30031671?seq=1
Gridded Worlds: An Urban Anthology, American Cities: The Grid Plan and the Protestant Ethic, by Richard Sennett https://books.google.com/books?id=gXZZDwAAQBAJ&dq=American+Cities:+The+Grid+Plan+and+the+Protestant+Ethic,+by+Richard+Sennett+-+Gridded+Worlds:+An+Urban+Anthology&source=gbs_navlinks_s
Hippodamus and the Planned City By Alfred Burns https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/4435519.pdf?seq=1
Plan and Constitution: Aristotle's Hippodamus: Towards an 'Ostensive' Definition of Spatial Planning by Luigi Mazza
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