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How street design shapes city life, and why wider roads can lead to more traffic.
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Urban Planning: History of urban form · Ancient Cities and the Grid Plan
How the first cities took shape, from Mesopotamia and the Indus to Greece, Rome, Teotihuacan and Chang'an, and why the grid kept returning.
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Urban Planning: Why Wider Roads Bring More Traffic
How cities get their shape, from Roman grids and garden cities to cable cars, superblocks and the surprising math of traffic.
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From Urban Planning: History of urban form · Ancient Cities and the Grid Plan
Which feature made Indus Valley cities such as Mohenjo-daro remarkably advanced for their time?
- Wide boulevards built for chariots
- Giant pyramids at the city center
- Planned streets with covered drains
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Answer: Planned streets with covered drains
Around 2500 BCE these cities had regular street layouts, standardized bricks and covered drainage channels serving many homes, an urban sanitation rarely matched for millennia.
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