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The Marques de Pombal (1699-1782), responsible for rebuilding Lisbon on a heroic grid plan following the catastrophic earthquake of 1755. Morris was surely drawn to Midtown because there the city's grid plan is most strongly expressed and the rectilinearity of the streets and avenues extrudes upward in modernism's glass-and-steel towers. New York City, with a population of 152,000, had laid out its first grid plan only eight years earlier in 1811, and the area of what is now mid-Manhattan was still largely open farmland and country estates. |
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