Architecture & Engineering
Planned cities with grid streets
c. 2600-1900 BCEIndus Valley CivilisationMohenjo-daro, Harappa, DholaviraGujarat
2,600 BCE
Cities laid out on grids with standardised baked bricks and civic planning.
- Dated
- 2,600–1,900 BCE
- As scholars put it
- c. 2600-1900 BCE
- Originator
- Indus Valley Civilisation
- Source text
- Mohenjo-daro, Harappa, Dholavira
- Region
- Gujarat
- Discipline
- Architecture & Engineering
- Evidence
- Documented
- Confidence
- High
- Verification
- Reference-cited
Meanwhile in the West
Comparable urban planning re-emerges much later.
Fair to say
Interpretations rely on archaeology; the Indus script remains undeciphered.
Path to modern innovation
A benchmark in the history of urbanism.
Transmission
One of the world's earliest urban-planning traditions.
References
- 1Archaeology of the Indus Civilisation (e.g. J. M. Kenoyer)
Further reading
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