The use of the grid in town planning became more commonplace with the Roman Empire's military expansion. Much of the environmental variation on Manhattan Island was “obliterated” to make way for the homogenizing dictates of the grid.1" Thousands of years before the North American or European civilizations developed, cities such as Sirkap (now Islamabad), Tetihiuacan and ancient Chinese states were founded on rough grid plans (B.C.) that evolved over time. On an urban planning scale, "imposing this mathematical order on the landscape had a profound impact on the environmental history of New York City. At the base is a sixteen square terrace arranged as a parterre surrounding the central fountain. Gravity provides the force behind the garden’s waters cascading from a series of fountains, pools, and channels. Here you can create a layout as to where you will plant certain type of plants. (which at times is delineated as the centrally aligned promenade) that steps down along a sequence of horizontal plateaus dominating Vignola’s design for the garden. This grid is a set of squares that each represent 1 square foot of your garden. Villa Lante in Bagnaia, Italy, is perhaps the consummate example of grid geometry used in the Renaissance period of landscape design. The intersections of a grid pattern can dictate gathering spaces. The development of the grid in landscape design is a means by which to simplify, or “rationalize” the landscape through the process of spatially reorganizing the world to fit the logic of geometrical regularity. You can describe it, as a designer’s very own "enigma code" which can elevate design discourse to that of a science, and eradicate the creative block by "virtually" filling the blank page. For a landscape designer, garden designer, or novice homeowner this method of design can be essential for garden planning. The benefits of using a grid are multifarious, ranging from the psychological to the functional, and, of course, the aesthetic. A grid is generally a series of straight vertical and horizontal lines, sets of intersecting lines that help the designer decide where to put things. A grid can help a designer control the positions of built and spatial elements, making the layout task more systematic. Grids have been and continue to be used in all manner of layout tasks from urban design to building construction. The attempt to organize space in a geometrical construction can be seen in this rendering of a funeral procession in a Thebes garden.
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