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	Maponics Online Store: Gridded Street Radius Maps
		Our street data is from the premier U.S. street data provider and is updated every quarter.
		Grid and Street Index: The map will include an overlaid grid, with grid cells labeled A1, A2, B1, B2 etc. Streets are indexed using the location of the street name labels, and an index provided in a separate Excel file.
		Street data is updated quarterly for the highest accuracy available, however we cannot guarantee that any particular street will be on the map.
	www.maponicsonlinestore.com /products/street-maps/gridded-street-radius-maps/gridded-street-radius-maps.html (689 words)

	Grid Illusions, curved
		When the grid lines are straight, dark patches appear in the street crossings, except the ones which you are directly looking at.
		If you are acquainted with the “classical” explanation of the Hermann grid (previous page), it will be obvious to you that this demonstration immediately invalidates that explanation – the inhibitory patches should exert the same influence whether the streets are curved or straight.
		We conclude that the Baumgartner model is not an adequate explanation of the Hermann grid illusion, because its prediction is contrary to the observations.
	www.michaelbach.de /ot/lum_herGridCurved (452 words)

	Carfree Cities: City Design: Straight Streets
		While the use of grids and straight streets is most commonly associated with the US West, straight streets have been used in cities around the world at least since Roman times.
		The disadvantages of straight streets are that they reduce the sense of enclosure, are boring, and make destinations seem farther away than they are - they discourage pedestrians.
		This town was also built on a rigid grid, but the scale is much smaller, and the straight streets here are really deadly - this is an extremely boring town, especially when compared with the Spanish Ayamonte, just across the river, which has taller buildings, narrower streets, and some breaks in the straight streets..
	www.carfree.com /design/stsr000.html (597 words)

	Grid plan - Definition, explanation
		The grid plan is a type of city plan in which streets run at right angles to each other, forming a grid.
		The Roman grid is characterized by a nearly perfectly orthogonal layout of streets, all crossing each other at right angles, and by the presence of two main streets, set at right angles from each other and called the cardo and the decumanus.
		Arguably the most famous grid plan in history is the plan for New York City formulated in the Commissioners' Plan of 1811, a visionary proposal by the state legislature of New York for the development of most of upper Manhattan.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/g/gr/grid_plan.php (1131 words)

	Bike Facilities Transect
		In walkable urban locations, in-street bicycle lanes should generally be considered a "transect violation," since their installation usually means that average motor vehicle speeds are increased (due to the perceived increase in street width for the motorist).
		Ideally, such streets should be re-designed to be compatible (or "immersive") in the walkable location through such techniques as removing travel lanes, adding on-street parking or other mechanisms that dramatically slow down motorists and obligate more attentiveness in their driving.
		On-street motor vehicle parking tends to be used somewhat less on suburban roads than on walkable urban streets.
	www.walkablestreets.com /bikeTransect.htm (788 words)

	Problem D: Grid Speed
		Consider a grid in which north-south streets, separated by gaps of 10 miles each, are elevated above east-west streets laid out in a similar fashion (see illustration for the case of a 6 by 6 grid).
		The grid has very little traffic, but the local police patrol so carefully for speeding that there are virtually no speeders.
		The speed limits are separately posted for each street and are the same for the entire street in both directions.
	acm.uva.es /p/v106/10671.html (555 words)

	Cul de Sacs, Grid Street Patterns Both Have a Role to Play - by Wendell Cox - The Heartland Institute
		Modern urban planning literature is filled with references to grid street patterns and their alleged superiority to the cul de sac--a loop or "dead-end street" pattern typical of modern suburban developments.
		Grid street patterns have a role to play, of course, but not necessarily through leafy neighborhoods or suburban residential developments.
		Inside of the grid, streets generally follow the modern suburban style of cul de sacs and loops.
	www.heartland.org /Article.cfm?artId=16851 (627 words)

	Hunter of Lost Streets - August 29, 2006 - The New York Sun
		Tauber notes, "parts of West 4th Street were formerly known as Asylum, Chester, and William Street." In other cases, depending on the record, a street can have various names, such as Dies, Dye, Dyes, and Dyers before it settled on the present Dey Street.
		Thirdly, the Commissioner's Plan that was adopted in 1811, and which introduced the well-known grid of numbered streets and avenues, destroyed numerous streets on the Stuyvesant and Kip Estates.
		"A single block of Stuyvesant Street is all that remains of the street grid on the former Stuyvesant estate."
	www.nysun.com /article/38744 (529 words)

	Cul de Sacs, Grid Street Patterns Both Have a Role to Play - by Wendell Cox - The New Coalition for Economic and Social ...
		Modern urban planning literature is filled with references to grid street patterns and their alleged superiority to the cul de sac--a loop or "dead-end street" pattern typical of modern suburban developments.
		They claim local grid streets are needed to smooth traffic by easing the load on higher-capacity streets...
		Grid street patterns have a role to play, of course, but not necessarily through leafy neighborhoods or suburban residential developments.
	www.newcoalition.org /Article.cfm?artId=16851 (644 words)

	DC Map Grid
		The term 'grid' usually refers to a series of intersecting axes or to the points of intersection of these axes (called nodes), but actually grids result from tessellating regular polygons.
		The DC street grid is centered on the Capitol Building.
		The square grid can be quickly converted to either version of the triangular grid, just as the 26.5 degree triangle can be converted to the 30 degree one by keeping the width the same and adjusting the height.
	www.geocities.com /jussaymoe/dcgrid2/1grid.htm (1298 words)

	BrainConnection Print This Page
		Imagine the Hermann Grid as a map of city streets; most intersections appear to be grey, but when you look closely at any individual intersection, you will see that it is white.
		In the Hermann Grid, the intersection that you are looking directly at (orange circle) falls onto the fovea, and so there is very little lateral inhibition in that area.
		In the "streets" (green circle), there is a balance between dark and light areas, and so no gain adjustment is needed; we see this area as white.
	www.brainconnection.com /teasers/printindex.php3?main=illusion/hermann (537 words)

	Living Inside the Grid
		Living Inside the Grid, on view from February 28 through June 15, 2003, showcases a group of artists working independently who all use the grid motif to describe the myriad challenges of living in a world increasingly controlled by institutions, technology, and media.
		Rectilinear systems of organization have become so necessary to the smooth functioning of our society that it is becoming increasingly difficult to envision "living off the grid." Furthermore, many of the artists indicate that the grid presents a constant competition between the forces of order and chaos.
		Living Inside the Grid is part of Spatial Dynamics: Perceptions in a Digital Age, the New Museum's unprecedented exhibition series exploring the growing confluence of technology, architecture, and urbanism in contemporary art and culture.
	www.newmuseum.org /Press_Office/Press_Releases/Grid.htm (1411 words)

	THE 5 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		People think of streets as places that buildings are built on, rather than a network of roads that people use to get around town.
		Though major streets and boulevards may be designed with travel rather than construction in mind, most streets are thought of as places where houses or businesses are built.
		Streets and roads are not the same to someone from LA. The Oakland map shows both freeways and streets.
	www.ocf.berkeley.edu /~brianw/the5.html (1014 words)

	IMS Descriptions
		This service is often used to locate streets, parcels, businesses, and to find tiles for digital data in Boone County.
		This service is often used to locate streets, parcels, businesses, and to find tiles for digital data in and around the City of Union.
		This service is often used to locate streets, parcels, businesses, and to find tiles for digital data in and around the City of Walton.
	www.boonecountygis.com /IMS.aspx (975 words)

	Greater Astoria Historical Society - History Topics Street Names
		In the 1920s, the borough of Queens copied the street grid pattern and numbering system used in Philadelphia and renamed and renumbered most of the streets throughout the country.
		This created a grid with streets running roughly north and south and avenues running east and west.
		First street is a 'Road', second is a 'Drive' and finally a 'Court' or 'Terrace' Conversely the system for extra 'Streets' is 'Place', 'Lane,' and 'Court' or 'Terrace' Not certain as to where 'Crescent' fits in.
	www.astorialic.org /topics/streets/names_new_p.php (323 words)

	Baltimore Ghosts - Streets - monumentalcity.net
		A somber tale of a rather unremarkable old street in the heart of redevelopment, its decades of resistance to imminent change, and its final succumbing to the forces of modernization.
		The planned grid of Peabody Heights would seem to spell disaster for the old lazy lanes near Waverly in 1897.
		Having existed for over 100 years, it would not be until 2003 when a supermarket chain would spell the end for the majority of this breezy old estate roadway.
	www.monumentalcity.net /streets (665 words)

	Urban Sundial - Manhattan's grid system streets - Brief Article National Review - Find Articles
		This chronometer is the grid of the city's streets.
		The result is that the cross streets of the grid, which supposedly run "east" to "west," actually run east-southeast to west- northwest.
		The odd-numbered streets run "west," the even- numbered streets run "east." The red that I saw was the light from the taillights of cars heading for New Jersey.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1282/is_13_53/ai_76167317 (967 words)

	Carfree Cities: City Design: Tapered Streets (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Note that it is possible to maintain a grid pattern even while applying tapers and steps.
		While there is no real need to maintain a grid pattern absent automobile traffic, quite a few people seem to prefer it, and it seems reasonable to provide at least some neighborhoods built to a grid.
		Since the war, many North American neighborhoods have seen the grid again abandoned in favor of cul-de-sac street patterns (which must be the most confusing possible arrangement, and the least forgiving of any error in navigation).
	www.carfree.com /design/sttp000.html (276 words)

	Philadelphia PA Tourism: City Layout - SideStep
		If you can count and remember the names of trees (many of the east-west streets sport tree names, such as Walnut, Locust, and Spruce), you'll know exactly where you are in the Center City grid.
		Front Street (which would be 1st St.), near the Delaware's edge off to the right, and neighboring 2nd Street were the major thoroughfares in Colonial times.
		The broad northwest boulevard of Benjamin Franklin Parkway divides the grid, ending in the majestic neoclassical portico of the Philadelphia Museum of Art in the west.
	www.sidestep.com /travel-info-t0023030022-city_layout_philadelphia_pa (621 words)

	Pennsylvania State Theatre: Walnut Street Theatre
		With vision and inspirational leadership, Walnut Street Theatre was reconceived as a non-profit regional theatre dedicated to the preservation and development of the art of theatre.
		This distinction sets Walnut Street Theatre apart from most of its similarly-sized peers in the region which are commercial theatres formed to return a profit to their owners.
		In a theatre, a grid is a structure comprised of boards and beams that is suspended from the roof of the building over the stage.
	www.e-referencedesk.com /resources/state-symbols/pennsylvania/theatre.html (1704 words)

	neighborhood structure
		Jefferson’s National Survey, a grid system of land allotments, was created in 1785 to promote the equal independent allotments for those homesteading on the frontier of the expanding United States (Wright 22).
		Conversely modern developments often have winding streets, cul-de-sacs, and dead ends to combat the modern problem of traffic speed, in order to make neighborhoods a safer place for children.
		There is an obvious shift in structure of Northfield neighborhoods as the original grid planning of older neighborhoods has yielded to the curving cu-de-sac streets characteristic of more modern developments (Rogness 34).
	www.stolaf.edu /depts/environmental-studies/courses/es-399%20home/es-399-04/Projects/Greller_Project/changing%20developments.html (324 words)

	Berkeley To Build Bicycle Roadways / Visually unique grid will crisscross city
		The north-south boulevards include Ninth Street between Albany and Emeryville; California and King streets from Hopkins Street to the Oakland border; Milvia Street between Hopkins and Russell streets; and Bowditch Street and Hillegass Avenue from the University of California at Berkeley to Oakland.
		The east-west bikeways are Virginia Street between Le Roy Avenue and Fifth Street; Channing Way between Prospect and Fourth streets; and Russell Street between Claremont and San Pablo avenues.
		The streets were chosen because they run through residential areas, already have some traffic diverters and are used by fewer cars than parallel thoroughfares such as University, Telegraph or San Pablo avenues.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/04/06/MN129.DTL (832 words)

	Realty Times - Real Estate News and Advice
		Their cause is to promote a Complete Streets policy to build new streets or recast old ones so that they are safe and accessible for all those who need to move around the community -- pedestrians, bicyclists, motorists and transit riders.
		There is no single Complete Street design or layout, but it typically includes sidewalks, bike lanes, plenty of crosswalks, wide shoulders, medians, bus pullouts, special bus lanes, raised crosswalks, audible pedestrian signals, sidewalk bulb-outs, and more.
		Streets that force residents into their cars for every trip outside the home contribute to the epidemic of obesity that, unfortunately, has become an American way of life.
	realtytimes.com /rtcpages/20060117_taketostreet.htm (629 words)

	CTA \| Chicago Transit Authority - System Maps
		Chicago was built on a grid system with a "major" street every half mile - equal to four blocks.
		All of the other north/south streets are numbered as so many blocks east or west of State, with the addresses increasing by 100 for each block (except downtown, where streets do not always correspond to a full block).
		The street that runs parallel to Madison eight blocks to the north (Chicago Avenue) is referred to as 800 North, and is one mile north of Madison.
	www.transitchicago.com /maps/systemmaps.html (634 words)

	News and Photos of Japan - Kyoto's Grid is Bad for City
		A logical, right angle grid of streets was laid out in the early 8th c.
		Despite lingering on in Kyoto, the grid layout never took hold in Japan and to my knowledge Kyoto is the only major city where it can be found.
		The grid like streets are wider and straighter, which allows for greater volumes and speeds of traffic.
	www.ikjeld.com /japannews/00000254.php (1015 words)

	Midtown Guru
		Come out tonight to see an acoustic Mike Rofe engagement at the Fox N Goose on 10th and R Streets. Also on the menu are Dustin Arron, Deluxe, and Pickleweed.
		Restaurants with bars blossom on the streets of Midtown and Downtown, beginning to connect the dots between the former blank spaces, even on K Street Mall.
		It was powerful to see so many people combing the streets on a non-2nd Saturday and we hope that you not only discovered new loves in the dining world but also noticed other locally owned small businesses that have raised the bar of experience in Sacramento.
	midtowngrid.com /blog (4000 words)

	Ivars Peterson's MathTrek
		Chang speculates that this geometry -- as represented in the Steiner point problem on a grid -- may be applicable to the study of certain interactions in crystals.
		In a crystal, atoms, ions, or molecules form an orderly array, with a repeating pattern of neat columns and rows.
		When such a crystal fractures, the cracks tend to follow the directions of the columns and rows, somewhat like a walker sticking to a grid of streets.
	www.maa.org /mathland/mathland_4_8.html (1017 words)

	Diagonals of Peabody Heights - B-More Ghosts
		The general plan for the development was a simple and efficient grid of streets that would allow for the maximum number of usable lots.
		Strugging in vain to reach its Saint Paul Street end, Gilmore Lane is rudely abbreviated by the school on Barclay.
		Most of the street now falls under the more metropolitan name of University Parkway, though interestingly, the Easternmost block was allowed to retain its original name, as well as a more leisurely width.
	www.btco.net /ghosts/streets/diagpea/peabody.html (1137 words)

	UrbanPlanet.org > Grid Pattern Streets
		Even Atlanta has a grid pattern in their dowtown and midtown areas (basically where all the density is).
		A grid pattern simply shows that when a city was first getting developed, planning was involved.
		One thing to consider is that having a grid does not necesarily mean a whole bunch of square blocks.
	www.urbanplanet.org /forums/lofiversion/index.php/t23566.html (1166 words)

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