| 单词 | grid layout |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgrid layout d. Architecture. (See quots.) Also grid layout, grid plan, grid system. Cf. gridiron n. 3d. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > [noun] > town-planning or development > lay-out gridiron1883 layout1888 grid1954 1954 Ann. Reg. 1953 104 The Punjab's new capital at Chandigarh..was built on a grid system which separated fast traffic from slow and divided the city into 25 rectangular sectors. 1958 Listener 29 Nov. 826/1 The town is laid out on a grid plan. 1958 Listener 29 Nov. 826/1 In spite of the imposed colonial grid, the landscaping tradition of the old country reasserts itself successfully. 1959 Chambers's Encycl. XIII. 703/2 Wherever land is approximately flat there has been a tendency to use the grid layout, by which a town is divided into ‘blocks’ of approximately equal size by streets at right-angles to each other. 1959 Listener 26 Mar. 542/2 He accepts, as indeed any architect today must accept, the rectangularities, the grid, the engineering forms, the big areas of glass that, for most people, are modern architecture. 1969 Listener 23 Jan. 98/1 Some of the factors blighting American cities (their ruthless grid-plan expansion, [etc.]). < as lemmas |
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