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- be "the father of European urban planning", and the namesake of the "Hippodamian plan" (grid plan) of city layout, although rectangular city plans were...
- Pella (Gr****: Πέλλα) is an ancient city located in Central Macedonia, Greece. It served as the capital of the ancient Gr**** kingdom of Macedon. Currently...
- In urban planning, the grid plan, grid street plan, or gridiron plan is a type of city plan in which streets run at right angles to each other, forming...
- Later, Demetrius III Philopator rebuilt the city according to the Gr**** hippodamian system and renamed it "Demetrias". In 64 BC, the Roman general Pompey...
- mid-2nd century city. The Romans typically built a city according to a Hippodamian grid plan – a north–south arterial road, the Cardo (which is now the...
- expansion. The architect Dinocrates of Rhodes designed the city, using a Hippodamian grid plan. Following Alexander's death in 323 BC, his general Ptolemy...
- end of the slope of Bulbul Mountain, they were built according to the Hippodamian plan of the city in which roads transected each other at the right angles...
- The new city was surrounded by m****ive walls and had an orthogonal hippodamian urban layout. In 7 AD Augustus changed its name to Livia Augusta in honour...
- Rome. Like many Roman colonies, Aelia Capitolina was laid out with a Hippodamian grid plan of narrower streets and wider avenues. Notably, the decision...
- be "the father of European urban planning", and the namesake of the "Hippodamian plan" (grid plan) of city layout. The ancient Romans also used orthogonal...