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  2. Commissioners' Plan of 1811 - Wikipedia

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    The gridiron layout of a town or city is not new; it is "the most pervasive city design on earth" and can be found in "Italy and Greece, in Mexico, Central America, Mesopotamia, China [and] Japan." [ 6 ] It existed in the Old and New Kingdoms of Ancient Egypt , in the Indus Valley cities of Harappa [ 7 ] and Mohenjo-daro [ 8 ] – where many ...

  3. Grid plan - Wikipedia

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    As the United States expanded westward, grid-based city planning modeled on Philadelphia's layout would become popular among frontier cities, making grids ubiquitous across the country. [ 15 ] Another well-known grid plan is the plan for New York City formulated in the Commissioners' Plan of 1811 , a proposal by the state legislature of New ...

  4. World Wide Web - Wikipedia

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    A web page from Wikipedia displayed in Google Chrome. The World Wide Web (WWW or simply the Web) is an information system that enables content sharing over the Internet through user-friendly ways meant to appeal to users beyond IT specialists and hobbyists. [1]

  5. Interior design - Wikipedia

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    Interior design is a multifaceted profession that includes conceptual development, space planning, site inspections, programming, research, communicating with the stakeholders of a project, construction management, and execution of the design.

  6. History of artificial intelligence - Wikipedia

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    Their objectives were to write programs and build machines that could carry on conversations, translate languages, interpret pictures, and reason like human beings. [188] Much to the chagrin of scruffies, they initially chose Prolog as the primary computer language for the project. [189] Other countries responded with new programs of their own.

  7. New Frankfurt Old Town - Wikipedia

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    View from Frankfurt Cathedral to the Dom-Römer area (April 2018), on the left the town house on the market. The New Frankfurt Old Town (also known as the Dom-Römer Quarter) is the centre of the old town of Frankfurt am Main, Germany, which was reconstructed from 2012 to 2018 as part of a major urban development project called the Dom-Römer Project (German: Dom-Römer-Projekt).

  8. Woodworking - Wikipedia

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    Additionally, they also have a greater variety of grain patterns and color and take a finish better which allows the woodworker to exercise a great deal of artistic liberty. Hardwoods can be cut more cleanly and leave less residue on sawblades and other woodworking tools. [11]

  9. iOS - Wikipedia

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    With increasing display sizes on newer iPhone hardware, iOS 7 updated the folders with pages similar to the home screen layout, allowing for a significant expansion of folder functionality. Each page of a folder can contain up to nine apps, and there can be 15 pages in total, allowing for a total of 135 apps in a single folder. [ 108 ]