Urban Planning in the Pyramid Builder’s World
The Lehner excavation revealed two cities created for the Pyramid builders constructed right next to one another. One features an organic plan, where narrow streets wind and curve and end without any sort of scientifically planned layout. The other city uses a grid plan, where straight streets run one direction, intersected with straight streets running another direction to create square blocks.
In Egyptian grids, blocks cut through with alleyways and smaller access points, but the main thoroughfares are along straight streets. The main street running through each city paved its streets with packed limestone and dried mud. There was a sewage drain running down the middle of the street to keep it reasonably dry.
