Title & Author:

Early modern urbanism and the grid : town planning in the Low Countries in international context : exchanges in theory and practice, 1550-1800 / edited by Piet Lombaerde & Charles van den Heuvel.

Publication:

Turnhout : Brepols [2011]
©2011

Description:

xix, 252 pages : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm.

Series:

Architectura Moderna ; v. 10

Notes:
Proceedings of a conference held May 8, 2009 in Antwerp.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-236) and index.
Introduction / Piet Lombaerde and Charles van den Heuvel -- "Tractable materials" : der Architekt zwischen 'Grid' und 'Ragion di Stato' / Werner Oechslin -- Multilayered grids and Dutch town planning : flexibility and temporality in the design of settlements in the low countries and overseas / Charles van den Heuvel -- Stevin's grid city and the Maurice conspiracy / Wim Nijenhuis -- Fortification and town structure : Wilhelm Dilich's Peribologia (1640) and its connection to fortification theory in the low countries / Tobias Büchi -- Grid and the existing city, or How new civic buildings and interventions on confiscated grounds transformed the medieval city in early modern times : a focus on Antwerp (1531-84) / Jochen De Vylder -- Netherlands expertise in Swedish sixteenth- and seventeenth-century urban planning / Nils Ahlberg -- Castrametatio and the grid in the Spanish Habsburg world : contributions from the low countries 1550-1750 / Piet Lombaerde -- Toward an urbanismo austríaco : an examination of sources for urban planning in the Spanish Habsburg world / Jesús Escobar -- Delirious New Amsterdam / Christopher P. Heuer -- Late eighteenth-century U.S. rectangular land survey and Frank Lloyd Wright's recuperation of its Enlightenment ideal / Neil Levine -- Chicago architecture and the American grid / David Van Zanten.
Text in English with some German.

Summary:

From the late sixteenth century until around 1800, new ideas and practices of urban planning and the implementation of public buildings, water works and fortifications from the Low Countries were disseminated across Europe and America. Engineers, mathematicians and other scientists in the Low Countries applied methods of design and land surveying that were gradually assimilated and often modified following exchanges within local practice. In some cases, models were projected onto the existing situation. This phenomenon of disseminating and exchanging theoretical models and practical methods between the Low Countries, Europe and its colonies during this period developed into a new Early Modern Urbanism movement within the Western world.

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ISBN:

9782503540733
2503540732

Subject:

City planning Netherlands History Congresses.
City planning Belgium History Congresses.
City planning Mathematical models History Congresses.
Architecture, Modern 17th century Congresses.
Grids (Crisscross patterns)
Architecture 17e siècle Congrès.
Grilles (Formes)
Architecture, Modern.
City planning.
City planning Mathematical models.
Idealstadt
Raster
Stadtplanung
Belgium.
Netherlands.
Niederlande

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.
Proceedings.
Conference papers and proceedings.
History.
Kongress Antwerpen 2009

Added entries:

Lombaerde, Piet, 1948- editor.
Heuvel, Charles van den, editor.
Architectura moderna ; v. 10.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 275028
Call No.: BIB 209023
Status: Available