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