The L'Enfant plan
A regular grid of streets crossed by diagonal avenues and circles creates Washington's signature pattern, a street layout designed as a statement of the new nation.
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38.8935° N / 77.0199° W
L'Enfant's grid cut by bold diagonal avenues, opening onto the long green axis of the National Mall.





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Downtown Washington is one of the most deliberately planned urban centres in the world. Pierre L'Enfant's late eighteenth-century plan overlaid a regular grid of lettered and numbered streets with broad diagonal avenues named after states, meeting at circles and squares. From above, the result is a distinctive pattern of rectangles sliced by long angled lines.
To the south lies the National Mall, a wide open axis running from the Capitol toward the Washington Monument, lined with museums. Pennsylvania Avenue runs diagonally between the Capitol and the White House, tying the two centres of government together. Around them, office blocks, Penn Quarter and Chinatown fill the grid with dense, even texture.
A Downtown DC map poster makes the plan itself the subject. The diagonals and circles give the composition energy, while the Mall provides a calm, empty band across the frame. In black and white the city's formal geometry is at its clearest, and the relationship between the Capitol, the monuments and the streets becomes easy to read.
A regular grid of streets crossed by diagonal avenues and circles creates Washington's signature pattern, a street layout designed as a statement of the new nation.
The long open axis from the Capitol toward the Washington Monument forms a broad green band, framed by museum buildings along both sides.
This diagonal avenue links the Capitol and the White House, a ceremonial route that cuts across the grid and anchors the heart of the map.
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Ko e hā ʻa Downtown DC
Downtown DC holds meaning for people who worked in its offices, studied nearby or simply admire city planning, and its map is one of the most recognisable street patterns anywhere.
Personalise the title, subtitle and coordinates line, and choose Classic black & white, Noir, Paper, Blueprint or Sand. Blueprint suits the planned grid especially well. HD files are $9, or order a print with an optional wooden frame.
'Oda 'a e posita Downtown DC| Saisi paaki | Tuʻunga mahino | Ngaahi faile |
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| 30 × 40 cm11.8 × 15.7″ | 3,543 × 4,724 px | PNG · PDF |
| 29.7 × 42 cm (A3)11.7 × 16.5″ | 3,508 × 4,961 px | PNG · PDF |
| 42 × 59.4 cm (A2)16.5 × 23.4″ | 4,961 × 7,016 px | PNG · PDF |
| 45.7 × 61 cm18 × 24″ | 5,400 × 7,200 px | PNG · PDF |
| 50 × 70 cm19.7 × 27.6″ | 5,906 × 8,268 px | PNG · PDF |
| 61 × 91.4 cm24 × 36″ | 7,200 × 10,800 px | PNG · PDF |
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