The same standardized village plans replaced irregular hut clusters across multiple Egyptian villages

Evidence

The same plans were used to rebuild several other Egyptian villages, including Neghileh, eleven miles to the south, and Ghezaier in the province of Menufiyya. At Neghileh, ‘the wretched mass of huts formerly piled together without plan’ was removed altogether, and replaced with a new village which an English traveller found to be ‘very neat, laid out in streets crossing one another at right angles’. — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 159

Categorization

• SEED: Seed for the ‘grafting & growth’ style essay: right-angle Cartesian grid as the physical signature of imposing a new order, versus organic organic settlement patterns.
• DEFINE: The juxtaposition of ‘wretched mass piled without plan’ vs ‘streets crossing at right angles’ defines what the new order considered order itself.