| Barcelona: Manifold Grids and the Creda Plan Contributor(s): Busquets, Joan (Author), Perez-Ramos, Pablo (Author) |
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ISBN: 1939621534 ISBN-13: 9781939621535 Publisher: Applied Research & Design OUR PRICE: $22.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Architecture | History - General - Architecture | Urban & Land Use Planning - Architecture | Study & Teaching |
| Series: Redesigning Gridded Cities |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 10.9" W x 10.8" (1.60 lbs) 132 pages |
| Themes: - Demographic Orientation - Urban |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Redesigning Gridded Cities focuses with extreme detail on four paradigmatic gridded cities, Manhattan, Chicago, Barcelona, and Hangzhou by analyzing these cities and proposing their own interventions that implicate the grid in productive ways. They emphasize the value of open forms for city design, and specifically insist that the grid has the unique capacity to absorb and channel urban transformation flexibly and productively. In both historical and projective, this series of books explore the potential of the grid as a design tool to produce a multitude of urban processes and forms. The construction of modern Barcelona can be seen as a laboratory of urban projects and planning strategies. This process spanning more than 150 years features a series of innovative experiments that correspond to different scales and explain the complexity involved in constructing such a singular capital city. |
Contributor Bio(s): Busquets, Joan: - Joan Busquets, a world-renowned urban planner and architect, is the first Martin Bucksbaum Professor in Practice of Urban Planning and Design at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. |