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Limits RegistryMohenjo-daro, built around 2500 BCE in the Indus Valley (in present-day Pakistan), featured a grid layout of streets, standardized baked-brick construction, and one of the earliest known urban drainage and sanitation systems — making it one of the earliest known examples of deliberately planned city design anywhere in the ancient world.
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Mohenjo-daro, built around 2500 BCE in the Indus Valley (in present-day Pakistan), featured a grid layout of streets, standardized baked-brick construction, and one of the earliest known urban drainage and sanitation systems — making it one of the earliest known examples of deliberately planned city design anywhere in the ancient world.
The approximate founding date of the earliest known city constructed on a deliberate, planned street grid with organized municipal infrastructure such as drainage.
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Limits Registry. LR-EARLIEST-PLANNED-CITY-URBAN-GRID. Earliest known planned city with a street grid. 2026.