The Grid
+ Coketown
GRID AND COKETOWN Ordinance of 1785 -- Northwest Territory, townships, sections (e.g. Ohio 1787, Columbus 1817) (plan of Ohio; aerial photo) New York City -- surveys 1785, 1796; Commission 1806 (plan) Chicago, 1829- (1834 plan) San Francisco, 1839- (1878 plan) Thomas Jefferson's grid 1800 Jackson, Miss. 1822 Jeffersonville, Indiana, 1802 (1802 plan; 1817 plan) Circleville, Ohio -- planned 1810, squared 1837-56 1st tenement, NYC, 1835 (diagram of tenement patterns) British Housing Laws 1855 (plan) Pugin, Contrasts, 1836 (medieval city; same city in the 19th century) THEORISTS Claude Nicolas Ledoux Chaux 1773-9 (aerial view) L'Architecture consideree sous le rapport de l'art, des moeurs et de la legislation, 1804 Saint Simon 1814, De la reorganisation de la societe Europeene 1821, Le systeme industriel Fourier 1822, Traite d'association domestique agricole Phalanstere (phalanx, edifice) (view of proposed form) Guise, France, 1859-65 -- Godin Red Bank, NJ , 1843-54 Robert Owen 1822, New View of Society New Lanark, England New Harmony, Indiana (ideal proposal)