TY  - GEN
AU  - Busquets, Joan & Others
TI  - Urban grids : handbook for regular city design
SN  - 9781940743950
U1  - 307.1216 
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Novato
PB  - Harvard University Graduate School of Design - ORO Editions
KW  - Architecture
KW  - Grid plans (City planning)
KW  - School facilities--Planning
KW  - Asia
KW  - High school facilities--Planning
N1  - Contents
Contributions and Acknowledgments  6
Foreword  10
INTRODUCTION  14
1 THE URBAN WORLD IS GRIDDED  30
THE ATLAS OF GRID CITIES
1 .1 Grid Cities 101  32
1.2 Featuring the Values of Grid Cities  140 
2 GRID PROJECTS ACROSS HISTORY  176
RESPONDING TO DIFFERENT NEEDS AND OBJECTIVES  
2.1 Founding the Gridded City: A Means to Control the Territory  194
2.2 Inventing a New Form of City: The Ideal City  220
2.3 Framing the Territory: Grid as Organizer for the Whole Country  242
2.4 Composing the City by Fragments: Grids Defined by Discontinuous Open Spaces  268
2.5 Extending the City: Great Urban Expansions of the Nineteenth Century  286
2.6 Overlapping Grids: Transformative Devices for the Existing City  308
3 THE TWENTIETH-CENTURY DILEMMA  378
DEFINING THE NEW URBAN CULTURE  
3.1 Abandoning the Grid: The Modern City and New Traffic Demands  386
3.2 Revisiting the Grid: Six Lenses on the Post-WWII Urban Project  400
4 THE EMERGENCE OF NEW URBAN GRIDS  420
THE ATLAS OF CONTEMPORARY PROJECTS
4.1 48 Projects  422
4.2 Scanning the Specificity of Urban Projects  476
5 PROJECTIVE DESIGN TOOLS  506
REVISING TRADITIONAL INSTRUMENTS
5.1 Defining Compositional Strategies: Key Episodes and Logics of City Design  522
5.2 Acknowledging Changes in the Grid: Alterations, Exceptions, and Transgressions  566
5.3 Constructing Urban Form: Design Tools for the Regular City  590
5.4 Integrating the Multilayer City: New Combined Roles for the Network and Block  616
6 THE GOOD GRID CITY AS OPEN FORM
COPING WITH NEW URBAN ISSUES AND INTRODUCING FUTURE GUIDELINES  632

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