Is Chicago the most regularly laid-out city that has ever existed?

Question

The World Series is being broadcast on TV and before going to a commercial the network treats us to a view from the blimp or drone or something flying over Chicago at night, and the regularity of the pattern of streets in that city is conspicuous. In measuring "regularity", I give credit for the pattern persisting over a long distance, so that absolute perfection in a tiny city of say twelve-by-twelve city blocks, doesn't make it up to what Chicago has achieved in any regularity-of-streets competition. Is Chicago in fact the most regularly laid-out city that has ever existed?

Answer 1

I would argue New York City, specifically Manhattan, is more, if not just as regularly laid out. Both use a grid pattern, I haven't been to Chicago, but I have been to New York City a few times, the streets are all numbered going south to north, avenues going west to east. I could make the argument that Washington DC is even more well laid out since it was planned ahead of time. All roads seem to connect back to the Capitol as it's focal point.