Compare And Contrast City And Greek Cities

Throughout architecture history, cities have developed a more urbanized setting each building on the city that came before it. One can notice which traits of Modern cities have been adapted from Greek cities by comparing and contrasting Ancient Athens, Greece and Manhattan, New York. These two urbanizations are both examples that display how much the urban grid and the programs within a city have changed over time. Although the city of Manhattan has advanced greatly contrasting the Ancient Athens polis, there are some common characteristics between these two urbanizations as well. One example includes the grid that organizes these two cities. Both Athens and Manhattan have a clear resemblance to the Miletus grid that consist of a rectilinear grid system designed with congruent lots and a system of side roads networking perpendicular to wider main roads. However, these grids have their own unique characteristics for Broad Way Street is a wide vertical main road that runs all through Manhattan city while the Long Walls is a wide main road that connects Athens to Piraeus but does not continue within the city of Athens. In addition, Manhattan follows the Miletus grid much stricter that Athens did; aside from the edges of Manhattan, all of its lots are perfect rectangles while Athens expressed diverse shaped lots throughout the city fitting within the …show more content…
Manhattan is more famous for its variety of cultural markets and stores opposed to Athens for majority of their retail was sold through small market stands around scattered around the city and predominately near the Agora. Similar to these market stalls, Manhattan has many food trucks sprawled throughout the city conveniently placed to allow its community to get food on the go. Both Athens stationary market stalls and Manhattans mobile food trucks were sprawled throughout the city but predominately near the town