Planning in the New World: Medieval Legacy

St.  Augustine, Fla., Castillo de San Marco (1672-1756)
Jamestown, VA, 1607
Laws of the Indies, Philip II of Spain, 1573
      San Antonio, Texas (plan)
      San Francisco
      Santa Fe, NM
      Los Angeles
      Mexico City 
Detroit, 1701 (plan)
New Orleans, 1718
Plymouth, MA, 1622
Wethersfield, CT (plan)
Boston, 1630 (plan)
      Dock Square, Faneuil Hall
      Market Square, Old State House
      Common
Middlebury, VT, 1761
      Hampshire Grants
New York, 1626 (plan)
      Nieuw Amsterdam, Bowery, Harlem
      Battery, Broadway, Wall Street
      1665 jurisdiction over entire island of Manhattan
New Haven, CT, 1638 (plan)
Philadelphia, William Penn, 1681 (plan)
      cf. Richard Newcourt plan for rebuilding London, 1666   

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