More than half of London’s dwellings are houses with their own patch of land. The most common type is the terraced, or row, house. Monumental and institutional buildings take their place in a loose and predominantly residential urban fabric that leaves much land unbuilt even in the areas of densest development.

In no particular order, these are some of the best planned cities for urban design around the world.

• Singapore City, Singapore. Architectural Landmark.
• Zurich, Switzerland. Architectural Landmark.
• Copenhagen, Denmark.
• Seoul, South Korea.
• Chandigarh, India.
• Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
• Washington DC, USA.
• Düsseldorf, Germany.

In urban planning, 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.

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Pittsburgh

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It’s a result of the way the US has planned and surveyed land since the end of the Revolutionary War. Basically any city founded after 1785 will be planned on a grid because a grid system was used to survey new land added to the US after 1783.

A grid is a network of intersecting parallel lines, whether real or imaginary. Most American streets are laid out in a grid pattern, meaning the streets intersect at right angles and form a pattern of squares when viewed from above.

intransitive verb. : to scrape, graze, or rub against something so as to produce a harsh rasping sound.

Gondwana was an ancient supercontinent that broke up about 180 million years ago. The continent eventually split into landmasses we recognize today: Africa, South America, Australia, Antarctica, the Indian subcontinent and the Arabian Peninsula.

Grid is the network of lines formed by the combination of parallels of latitudes and longitudes on the globe. It is useful for locating various places exactly on the globe or map.

Let’s look at five kinds of layout grids; manuscript, column, baseline, modular and hierarchical.

• Manuscript Grids are used in documents, ebooks, pdfs and presentations with lots of text.
• Column Grids are used for magazines to organize content in columns so it is easier to read.

The lines of longitudes are not parallel to each other because they come closer to each other as they approach the North and the South pole. At the poles, the meridians of longitudes meet each other.

The correct answer is Earth’s grid or geographic grid. Explanation: The network of longitudes and latitudes intersecting each other to form a web is known as a grid. Explanation: The distance between two meridians is the maximum at the Equator, which is about 111 kms.

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Great circle: The Equator is known as the great circle, as it is the largest circle that can be drawn on the globe. This is because the equatorial diameter of the Earth is the largest.

The semicircles running from North to South on a globe or map are called Lines of Longitudes or meridians. The Prime Meridian is the most important line of longitude. It is located at zero degrees longitude (0˚). The Prime Meridian runs through Greenwich, a place near London.

The prime meridian is the imaginary line that divides Earth into two equal parts: the Eastern Hemisphere and the Western Hemisphere. The prime meridian is also used as the basis for the world’s time zones. The prime meridian appears on maps and globes. It is the starting point for the measuring system called longitude.

Longitude lines pass through the north and south poles. If you stood above the earth and looked down on the north pole from above, you would see the complete circle of the equator. So longitude goes from zero to 360 degrees. Latitude lines are parallel to the equator which has latitude = zero degrees.

The locations on the Earth’s surface are determined by two reference lines known as latitude and longitude….What is the difference between Latitude and Longitude?

In 1884, the International Meridian Conference took place in Washington, D.C. to establish an internationally recognised single meridian. The meridian chosen was that which passed through the Airy transit circle at Greenwich, and it became the prime meridian of the world.

[′dif·rəns əv ′lad·ə‚tüd] (geodesy) The shorter arc of any meridian between the parallels of two places, expressed in angular measure.

Write the latitude and longitude coordinates. When writing latitude and longitude, write latitude first, followed by a comma, and then longitude. For example, the above lines of latitude and longitude would be written as “15°N, 30°E.”

Common coordinate systems

• Number line.
• Cartesian coordinate system.
• Polar coordinate system.
• Cylindrical and spherical coordinate systems.
• Homogeneous coordinate system.
• Other commonly used systems.
• Relativistic coordinate systems.
• Citations.

Get the coordinates of a place

1. On your Android phone or tablet, open the Google Maps app .
2. Touch and hold an area of the map that isn’t labeled. You’ll see a red pin appear.
3. You’ll see the coordinates in the search box at the top.

The order in which you write x- and y-coordinates in an ordered pair is very important. The x-coordinate always comes first, followed by the y-coordinate. As you can see in the coordinate grid below, the ordered pairs (3,4) and (4,3) are two different points!