Savannah: May 2018 Archives

Lecture 24 from Doug Allen's History of Urban Form course describes Savannah's unique plan of wards, squares, blocks, and lots, originally developed for a small British outpost not far from Spanish territory, but replicated to enlarge the historic city. Allen shows how the dimensions and arrangement of streets and lots has facilitated adaptation and reuse in ways that the Gen. Oglethorpe could not have foreseen.