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In urban planning, the grid plan, grid street plan, or gridiron plan is a type of city plan in which streets run perpendicular (at right angles) to each other, forming a grid.
The analysis highlights History, Benefits and criticisms and Overview as prominent areas in the source structure around Grid plan.
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The extracted context around Grid plan shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Grid plan → Americas, An, British Isles, Bury St Edmunds, Canary Islands, Eastern Europe, Elburg, Ferdinand, France, Hundreds, Iberia, In, Indian, Indies, Isabella, It, King Philip II, La Laguna, Laws, Many Another extracted example is Grid plan → AD, American, As Japan, Asia, Balhae, Chang'an, Chinese, Edo Castle, Fujiwara-Kyô, Gyeongju, Heian-Kyô, Heijô-Kyô, However, In, In Korea, Japan, Japanese, Korean, Kyoto, Nara. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.
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TTTA extracted 155 structured relationships around Grid plan. Examples in this analysis include Grid plan → is a → one for New York City formulated in the Commissioners' Plan of 1811 and New York architect Charles Lamb → instance of → urban planners. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.
| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grid plan | is a | one for New York City formulated in the Commissioners' Plan of 1811 | 0.90 | text |
| New York architect Charles Lamb | instance of | urban planners | 0.80 | text |
| who was one of the first to sketch out a city plan with a hexagonal grid | instance of | urban planners | 0.80 | text |
| and Rudolf Muller | instance of | urban planners | 0.80 | text |
| Austrian architect who iterated upon Lamb's hexagonal grid system | instance of | urban planners | 0.80 | text |
| demonstrated their application | instance of | urban planners | 0.80 | text |
| value to city grids | instance of | urban planners | 0.80 | text |
| pavement | instance of | Any configuration can have wide or narrow streets.Street length influences proportionately the number of street components that have to be constructed | 0.80 | text |
| curbs | instance of | Any configuration can have wide or narrow streets.Street length influences proportionately the number of street components that have to be constructed | 0.80 | text |
| sidewalks | instance of | Any configuration can have wide or narrow streets.Street length influences proportionately the number of street components that have to be constructed | 0.80 | text |
| storm sewers | instance of | Any configuration can have wide or narrow streets.Street length influences proportionately the number of street components that have to be constructed | 0.80 | text |
| drains | instance of | Any configuration can have wide or narrow streets.Street length influences proportionately the number of street components that have to be constructed | 0.80 | text |
The concept neighborhoods around Grid plan bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Plan, Streets and City. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.
For Grid plan, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Grid plan with History. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.
TTTA analyzes the structure around Grid plan to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as History, Benefits and criticisms & Overview, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.
Source: Wikipedia — Grid plan · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout