Review: The Greatest Grid: The Master Plan of Manhattan 1811–2011

Review Article| March 01 2013 Review: The Greatest Grid: The Master Plan of Manhattan 1811–2011 The Greatest Grid: The Master Plan of Manhattan 1811–2011 Museum of the City of New York 6 December 2011–15 July 2012 Zeynep Turan Hoffman Zeynep Turan Hoffman 1The CUNY Graduate Center Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (2013) 72 (1): 102–103. https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2013.72.1.102 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Zeynep Turan Hoffman; Review: The Greatest Grid: The Master Plan of Manhattan 1811–2011. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 1 March 2013; 72 (1): 102–103. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2013.72.1.102 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of the Society of Architectural Historians Search Though New York City can be a socially and physically stressful urban environment, this usually is not a result of the layout of its streets. Indeed, despite the cacophony and chaos, finding one’s way around this megapolis is surprisingly easy thanks to its orderly configuration—a grid. While New Yorkers and visitors alike may take this spatial arrangement for granted, this remarkable facet of the city is worth examining because its careful parceling shapes how we live in New York today. To commemorate the bicentennial of the Commissioners Plan of 1811 that imposed a grid on the island of Manhattan, The Museum of the City of New York hosted an exhibition portraying the processes of devising and developing the grid, as well as its place in the contemporary imagination of some architects and artists. Curated by Hilary Ballon, The Greatest Grid is composed of over two hundred historical documents, maps, photographs,... You do not currently have access to this content.