Abstract
This chapter provides a genealogy of the grid and a critical reassessment of the limitations of Stanislawski’s theory of the grid’s origin as a means of challenging the doctrine of geographical diffusionism more generally. It then offers a selective overview of recent approaches to understanding the grid and calls for a comparative genealogy of gridded spaces.
This chapter was originally published as Rose-Redwood, R. (2008). “Genealogies of the Grid: Revisiting Stanislawski’s Search for the Origin of the Grid-Pattern Town.” Geographical Review, 98(1): 42–58. Copyright © 2008 by the American Geographical Society of New York. Reproduced with permission of John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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Rose-Redwood, R. (2018). Genealogies of the Grid: Revisiting Stanislawski’s Search for the Origin of the Grid-Pattern Town. In: Rose-Redwood, R., Bigon, L. (eds) Gridded Worlds: An Urban Anthology . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76490-0_3
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