Gridded Worlds: An Urban Anthology

Introduction.-  1: The Origin and Spread of the Grid-Pattern Town.- 2: Genealogies of the Grid: Revisiting Stanislawski's Search for the Origin of the Grid-Pattern Town.-  3: The City Shaped: "The Grid and Politics" and "Laying Out the Grid".- 4: Plan and Constitution-Aristotle's Hippodamus: Towards an "Ostensive" Definition of Spatial Planning.- 5: Chinese Spatial Strategies: The Grid Plan as Ideology.-  6: Military Considerations and Colonial Town Planning: France and New France in the Seventeenth Century.- 7: From Diffusionism to the Production of Space: The Lébou Pènç and the Grid in the Urban History of Senegal.- 8: Indigenous Architecture and the Spanish-American Gridplan-Plaza in Mesoamerica and the Caribbean.- 9: Gridiron Cities and Checkerboard Towns.- 10: American Cities: The Grid Plan and the Protestant Ethic.- 11: The Grid as City Plan: New York City and Laissez-Faire Planning in the Nineteenth Century.- 12: The Dark Side of the Grid: Power and Urban Design.- 13: Gridded Lives: Why Kazakhstan and Montana Are Nearly the Same Place.- 14: Ladders: Urban Implosion.- 15: Urban Grids and Urban Imaginaries: City to Cyberspace, Cyberspace to City.- Conclusion.