Editing Grid plan (section)

===Europe and its colonies (12th-17th centuries)===
[[File:Schéma bastide modèle Gascon.jpg|thumb|right|[[Bastide]] schema in [[Gascony]]]]
New [[Europe]]an towns were planned using grids beginning in the 12th century, most prodigiously in the [[bastides]] of southern [[France]] that were built during the 13th and 14th centuries. Medieval European [[new town]]s using grid plans were widespread, ranging from [[Wales]] to the [[Florence|Florentine]] region. Many were built on ancient grids originally established as Roman colonial outposts. In the British Isles, the planned new town system involving a grid street layout was part of the system of [[burgage]]. An example of a medieval planned city in The Netherlands is [[Elburg]]. [[Bury St Edmunds]] is an example of a town planned on a grid system in the late 11th century.<ref>{{Cite web|title=St Edmundsbury Local History – St Edmundsbury from 1066 to 1216|url=http://www.stedmundsburychronicle.co.uk/Chronicle/1066-1216.htm|access-date=2021-05-18|website=www.stedmundsburychronicle.co.uk}}</ref>

The Roman model was also used in Spanish settlements during the [[Reconquista]] of Ferdinand and Isabella. It was subsequently applied in the new cities established during the [[Spanish colonization of the Americas]], after the founding of [[San Cristóbal de La Laguna]] (Canary Islands) in 1496. In 1573, King Philip II of Spain compiled the Laws of the Indies to guide the construction and administration of colonial communities. The Laws specified a square or rectangular central plaza with eight principal streets running from the plaza's corners. Hundreds of grid-plan communities throughout the Americas were established according to this pattern, echoing the practices of earlier Indian civilizations.

The [[baroque]] capital city of [[Malta]], [[Valletta]], dating back to the 16th century, was built following a rigid grid plan of uniformly designed houses, dotted with palaces, churches and squares.

The grid plan became popular with the start of the [[Renaissance]] in Northern Europe. In 1606, the newly founded city of [[Mannheim]] in [[Germany]] was the first Renaissance city laid out on the grid plan. Later came the New Town in [[Edinburgh]] and almost the entire city centre of [[Glasgow]], and many [[Planned community|planned communities]] and cities in [[Australia]], [[Canada]] and the [[United States]].

[[Derry]], constructed in 1613–1618, was the first [[planned city]] in [[Ireland]]. The central diamond within a walled city with four gates was considered a good design for defence. The grid pattern was widely copied in the colonies of [[British North America]].