Hippodamus

Hippodamus, the inventor of formal city planning, conceives of fostering growth by designing a rigid framework of intersecting streets that form quadrilateral city blocks in advance.

Alla Kazovsky: Thinking Small. Thinking Big. Alla Kazovsky 2011

Hippodamus does not dictate the final outcome; he simply visualizes a way of thriving within boundaries.

Alla Kazovsky: Thinking Small. Thinking Big. Alla Kazovsky 2011

Hippodamus does not dictate the final outcome; he simply visualizes a way of thriving within boundaries.

Alla Kazovsky: Thinking Small. Thinking Big. Alla Kazovsky 2011

Just like Hippodamus, they can devise a framework that turns familiar and tired into something authentic.

Alla Kazovsky: Thinking Small. Thinking Big. Alla Kazovsky 2011

Just like Hippodamus, they can devise a framework that turns familiar and tired into something authentic.

Alla Kazovsky: Thinking Small. Thinking Big. Alla Kazovsky 2011

Hippodamus, the inventor of formal city planning, conceives of fostering growth by designing a rigid framework of intersecting streets that form quadrilateral city blocks in advance.

Alla Kazovsky: Thinking Small. Thinking Big. Alla Kazovsky 2011

Miletus also counts as native sons Hippodamus, the first town-planner, and Thrasybulus, the tyrant and teacher of tyrants.

When Trouble in Athens Meant Sparta 2010

As a political scientist, I take offense when scientists behave like Hippodamus.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Hey, Boss, You’re Just Like My Teenage Kids: 2009

In truth, many laws acquire force by mere custom, not by syllogistic necessity, like the arts: as Aristotle, the Phoebus of the Schools, urges in the second book of the Politics, where he confutes the policy of Hippodamus, which holds out rewards to the inventors of new laws, because to abrogate old laws and establish new ones is to weaken the force of those which exist.

The Love of Books : The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury 2007

[Footnote: The lost Utopia of Hippodamus provided rewards for inventors, but unless Aristotle misunderstood him, and it is certainly the fate of all Utopias to be more or less misread, the inventions contemplated were political devices.]

A Modern Utopia Herbert George 2006