- 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...
- expansion. The
architect Dinocrates of
Rhodes designed the city,
using a
Hippodamian grid plan.
Following Alexander's
death in 323 BC, his
general Ptolemy...
- Later,
Demetrius III
Philopator rebuilt the city
according to the Gr****
hippodamian system and
renamed it "Demetrias". In 64 BC, the
Roman general Pompey...
- 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...
-
remaining examples of a city
built on a
rectilinear street grid of a
Hippodamian plan in Greece. The
first settlements on the site are from the Paleolithic...
- 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...
-
ramparts made of sun-dried
bricks around the city.
Smyrna was
built on the
Hippodamian system, in
which streets run north-south and east-west and intersect...
