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City Plan as Ideology: Reading the Configuration of Beijing in Ming-Qing China,veloped in the Song and the early Ming dynasties. This is reflected in a reinforced emphasis on the need to combine . (sage rulership) and . (powerful rulership) in the consolidation of a symbolic layout of urban imperial space.

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American Cities: The Grid Plan and the Protestant Ethic, had waned. The chapter suggests that the American grid plan was a sign of a peculiarly modern form of repression based upon the denial of meaning and difference through the production of abstract urban spaces of neutrality.

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Gridded Lives: Why Kazakhstan and Montana are Nearly the Same Place,omparative urban history to illustrate how the grid evolved just as the territories of the U.S. and Soviet Union were being swept into larger industrial and agricultural economies. The author concludes that, in both cases, political powers produced gridded spaces, often violently, to serve economic and political goals.

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Gridded Spaces, Gridded Worlds,al aim is to situate the current edited collection within broader discussions of the grid in urban history from antiquity to the present. In doing so, the chapter explores the political and economic rationalities that have informed the diverse uses of the grid as a mode of urban spatial ordering as

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The City Shaped: The Grid,ostof’s account of the grid layout has had a significant influence on subsequent scholarship related to the historical geography of the grid. The excerpts reprinted in this chapter highlight Kostof’s key contributions with a focus on the relation between the grid and political ideology.

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The Dark Side of the Grid Revisited: Power and Urban Design,le, accessible, efficient, traditional, and, perhaps, even egalitarian. This chapter examines the grid in the context of traditions which have used it as a dominant form in city building. A brief historical review shows that the grid has emerged in some societies seeking to diffuse authority among c

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