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grid system

In archaeology, an excavation technique that aims to include both the vertical and horizontal dimensions by retaining intact baulks (standing sections) of earth between the excavated squares of the grid so that different layers can be traced and correlated across the site of the vertical profiles.



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The Marques de Pombal (1699-1782), responsible for rebuilding Lisbon on a heroic grid plan following the catastrophic earthquake of 1755.
Material encounters: for reasons of history and economics, there is ... by Brittain-Catlin, Timothy / The Architectural Review
Morris was surely drawn to Midtown because there the city's grid plan is most strongly expressed and the rectilinearity of the streets and avenues extrudes upward in modernism's glass-and-steel towers.
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New York City, with a population of 152,000, had laid out its first grid plan only eight years earlier in 1811, and the area of what is now mid-Manhattan was still largely open farmland and country estates.
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