Teotihuacan Mastered City Planning 2,000 Years Ago with Apartments and Grid Planning
Speaker: Dr. Lauren Kilroy-Ewbank
Urban planning at Teotihuacan
This video explores the massive Mesoamerican city of Teotihuacan, an ancient site known for its incredible architecture. This video on the city's grid plan and apartment compounds is a way to discuss urbanization and social and political organization. This video is intended to get people thinking about what is important about planning a city on a grid.
Teotihuacan, Mexico, looking toward the Pyramid of the Sun
Video chapters
0:00 Introduction to Teotihuacan
0:42 What is a grid plan, and what are apartment compounds?
2:00 The Teotihuacanos
2:33 Apartment compounds
3:50 Social organization
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