[stevekemp]

One interesting city to contrast the differences is Edinburgh, Scotland. The city was established by royal charter in the early 12th century, so it has been around a while, and a lot of the older parts are as you'd expect.

The part which we now call "New Town" was built in stages between 1767 and around 1850 and has an explicit "block-based" design.

More details on Wikipedia, as always:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Town,_Edinburgh