Modern urban planning literature is filled with references to grid street patterns and their alleged superiority to the cul de sac–a loop or “dead-end street” pattern typical of modern suburban ...

A mysterious grid of dots spanning several miles of Western China's sand dunes like a giant chessboard may be the result of geological surveys for nickel mines, according to new analysis of satellite ...

NASA shared satellite images of a grid pattern in a landscape in Hokkaido The pattern made the landscape look rather like a checkerboard The lines are actually wide rows of forested windbreaks ...