In place of neat street grids that signal order and authority, it had a patchwork of meandering neighbourhoods.
它取代了象征秩序和权威的整齐的街道网格,取而代之的是蜿蜒曲折的街区。
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So imagine where a traditional urban master plan, you typically draw the street grid where the cars can drive and the building plots where you can put some buildings.
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 a grid. In the context of the culture of ancient Rome, the grid plan method of land measurement was called Centuriation.