Hippodamus is known for inventing formal city planning, “Father of City Planning”. He traditionally designed orthogonally planned towns such as, Olynthus, Priene, Miletus, and Piraeus. This planning system was inspired by shape and the improvement of urban environment. His grid arranged private dwellings in a more pleasant and convenient manner for the lifestyles of greek’s. The grid is set to work with the topography so that water runs down the streets. Although if the grid were being planned according to war, it would be the opposit of planned and convenient, being that it would be too easy for the enemy to navigate around. Greeks were the first to use solar architecture in which they oriented their houses to make use of the sun during the winter. (early 400 B.C.)
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