Urban grids : handbook for regular city design / Joan Busquets, Dingliang Yang, Michael Keller.

Main entry:

Busquets, Joan, author.

Title & Author:

Urban grids : handbook for regular city design / Joan Busquets, Dingliang Yang, Michael Keller.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

[San Francisco, California] : ORO Editions, [2019]

Description:

680 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps, plans ; 31 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages672-675).
Foreword / Joan Busquets -- The urban world is gridded: the atlas of grid cities : Grid cities 101 ; Featuring the values of grid cities -- Grid projects across history: responding to different needs and objectives : Founding the gridded city: a means to control the territory ; Inventing a new form of city: the ideal city ; Framing the territory: grid as organizer for the whole country ; Composing the city by fragments: grids defined by discontinuous open spaces ; Extending the city: great urban expansions of the nineteenth century ; Overlapping grids: transformative devices for the existing city ; Searching for a decentralized model: the discontinuous city ; Creating capital cities: the symbolic core and the supporting grid -- The twentieth-century dilemma: defining the new urban culture : Abandoning the grid: the modern city and new traffic demands ; Revisiting the grid: six lenses on the post-WWII urban project -- The emergence of new urban grids: the atlas of contemporary projects : 48 projects ; Scanning the specificity of urban projects -- Projective design tools: revising traditional instruments : Defining compositional strategies: key episodes and logics of city design ; Acknowledging changes in the grid: alterations, exceptions, and transgressions ; Constructing urban form: design tools for the regular city ; Integrating the multilayer city: new combined roles for the network and block -- The good grid city as open form: Coping with new urban issues and introducing future guidelines.

ISBN:

9781940743950 (hardcover)
1940743958 (hardcover)

Subject:

Grid plans (City planning)
City planning.
Plans en damier (Urbanisme)
grid plan.

Added entries:

Yang, Dingliang, author.
Keller, Michael, 1963- author.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 304800
Call No.: BIB 250516
Status: Available

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