HIPPODAMUS, of Miletus, a Greek architect of the 5th century B.C. who introduced a system of town planning, in series of broad straight streets, cutting each other at right angles. He planned the harbour-town Peiraeeus at Athens for Pericles about B.C. and was architect to the Athenian colony which founded Thurii in Italy about 445 B.C. He superintended the building of the new city of Rhodes in 408 B.c. His plan consisted of series of broad, straight streets, cutting one another at right angles.
See C. F. Hermann, De Hippodamo Milesio (Marburg, 1841).