Hippodamus

Hippodamus of Miletus in Wikipedia

Hippodamus of Miletos (or Hippodamos, Greek: Ἱππόδαμος ο Μιλήσιος) (498 BC - 408 BC) was an ancient Greek architect, urban planner, physician, mathematician, meteorologist and philosopher and is considered to be the "father" of urban planning, the namesake of Hippodamian plan of city layouts (grid plan). He was born in Miletos and lived during the ...

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Hippodămus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

(Ἱππόδαμος). A Greek architect, born at Miletus in the second half of the fifth century B.C. He was the first inventor of a system of laying out towns on geometrical principles, carried out, under his direction, in the laying out of the Piraeus (q. v.), the harbour-town of Athens, and also at the building of Thurii (B.C. 443) and of Rhodes (408 B.C...

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