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)  

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