Grid plan

Image 31 of 43 from gallery of Grid House / FGMF. Casa Principal - Planta

The decision of a city in Texas to plan for new growth using a grid of streets has inspired readers and makes a lot of sense.

Sou Fujimoto has released images of a conceptual masterplan for the city of Doha, comprising tapering towers of stacked arches cooled by waterfalls.

Completed in 2007 in Brazil. Images by Alexandre Schneider. In an area of 53.24 hectares, only 65,000 square meters are not covered by the lush native intact forest that is permanently protected. In this area...

Image 21 of 25 from gallery of Vantage Point / GRID Architects. Apartment Plan

Urbanismo

Penda has released visualisations of a house designed for a tiny plot near the German city of Kassel that will grow food on both sides of its terraced roof.

At a glance, the overall pattern formed by these first 25 polar histograms (or: rose diagrams) is clear: orthogonal grids, mostly aligned with cardinal directions in orientation, dominate American cities. There are exceptions, but most streets run north, south, east and west. Geoff Boeing, an assistant professor of urban informatics at Northeastern University, recently moved

For more visual examples of the Fused Grid concept see Albums: 3-d Models, Neighborhood layouts and conventional-grid- to- fused-grid transformations. For an explanation of the model look up: Fused Grid in Wikipedia.

Image 15 of 17 from gallery of AD Classics: Xanadú / Ricardo Bofill. Plan at 2.5m