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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. [ 1 ] Two inherent characteristics of the grid plan, frequent intersections and orthogonal geometry, facilitate movement.
[1] [2] Based on ideas stemming from modernism and futurism, and inspired by architectural literature about city planning, Disney intended EPCOT to be a utopian autocratic company town. One of the primary stated aims of EPCOT was to replace urban sprawl as the organizing force of community planning in the United States in the 1960s.
Bag End, Hobbiton, the comfortable underground dwelling of Bilbo and later Frodo Baggins, constructed for Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings film series. Tolkien's painting The Hill: Hobbiton-across-the-Water, watercolour, 1938 [1] showing its ideal position near the top of the Hill at Hobbiton, with less-favoured Hobbit-holes lower down.
A city is a human settlement of a substantial size. The term "city" has different meanings around the world and in some places the settlement can be very small. Even where the term is limited to larger settlements, there is no universally agreed definition of the lower boundary for their size.
The Walt Disney Studios, located in Burbank, California, United States, serves as the corporate headquarters for the Walt Disney Company.The 51-acre (20.6 ha) studio lot also contains several sound stages, a backlot, and other filmmaking production facilities for Walt Disney Studios's motion picture production.
A graphical user interface (GUI) showing various elements: radio buttons, checkboxes, and other elements. A graphical user interface, or GUI [a], is a form of user interface that allows users to interact with electronic devices through graphical icons and visual indicators such as secondary notation.
Price had wanted a low-rise structure measuring two [46] [47] or three stories tall; [48] [49] as he said, he wanted a small building and a place to park ten trucks. [50] Although Price envisioned a structure with 25,000 square feet (2,300 m 2 ) in total, Wright wanted a 25-story structure with 25,000 square feet per story.
Tomkin Homes closed their Stanley Road display village in 1974 and opened four new houses at Burwood Highway designed by architect Gideon Markham; the "Greenway" at no. 470 had a smaller, budget layout, the "St. Andrew Mk II" at no. 466 was of a colonial appearance, the "Huntingdon" at no. 464 had more of a ranch-style and the "Montego" at no ...