

Downtown Durham: Fixing the Loop
(Downtown Durham Loop Plan, Cleveland & Church Partners) Grids, grids grids! City blocks, street corners and east to west, north to south thoroughfares that give our cities structure and have been part of urban layout for +2,000 years. A Roman Empire perfected system, the city grid has been used extensively in old world Europe and led to the growth of globally acclaimed cities (think different? Look at areas like Spain, where Moslem rule once held and cities sprawled in confu