This course covers the most essential aspects of physical form at work in the design of all cities from older, highly-localized urban grids in the Middle East and Africa to deformed grids in Europe to regular grids in the United States and the Americas. All cities utilize these (usually geometric) properties, though the scale at which they are realized will tend to vary during urban growth in defining a distinctive spatial culture. The purpose is to provide a basic understanding of the typologies and geometries of urban form that can be found underlying all settlements around the world, to one degree or another (1.0 hour course).