Grid urban design: the forgotten art of city-making

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Navigating certain cities around the world is remarkably easy to grasp, just as finding an address without GPS is not particularly difficult, even for first-time visitors. Urban design explains this ease of navigation. Urban spaces designed on a grid, such as Barcelona (Spain), New York, Chicago, and Phoenix (US), and Toronto (Canada)—where streets intersect at right angles to form a gridiron pattern—make orientation intuitive and optimize spatial utility.

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Cite: Cidade, Somos. "Grid urban design: the forgotten art of city-making" [Desenho urbano em grelha: a arte esquecida de fazer cidades] 04 Jul 2026. ArchDaily. (Trans. Romullo Baratto) Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/1136178/grid-urban-design-the-forgotten-art-of-city-making> ISSN 0719-8884
Athens, Greece. Image: @spathumpa

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