Hippodamus of Miletus (sometimes also called
Hippodamos), was a Greek architect of the 5th century BC. It was he who introduced order and
regularity into the planning of cities, in place of the previous intricacy
and confusion.
For Pericles he planned the arrangement of the harbour-town Peiraeus. When
the Athenians founded Thurii in Italy he accompanied the colony as
architect, and afterwards, in 408 BC, he superintended the building of the
new city of Rhodes.
