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A history of street networks : from grids to sprawl and beyond
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ISBN: 9781734345872 173434587X Year: 2020 Publisher: Hyattsville Pedshed Press

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A survey history of urban roadway networks and the origins of sprawling suburban patterns. To improve traffic, various individuals and groups sought to radically remold urban environments. Their city-planning and traffic-engineering efforts are traced from the industrial revolution, to twentieth-century sprawl, to later countermovements.


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Urban grids : handbook for regular city design
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ISBN: 9781940743950 1940743958 Year: 2019 Publisher: [Novato] ORO Editions

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Urban Grids: Handbook for Regular City Design' is the result of a five-year design research project undertaken by professor Joan Busquets and Dingliang Yang at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. The research that is the foundation for this publication emphasizes the value of open forms for city design, a publication that specifically insists that the grid has the unique capacity to absorb and channel urban transformation flexibly and productively. 'Urban Grids' analyzes cities and urban projects that utilize the grid as the main structural device for allowing rational development, and goes further to propose speculative design projects capable of suggesting new urban paradigms drawn from the grid as a design tool. Consisting of six major parts, it is divided into the following topics: 1) the atlas of grid cities, 2) grid projects through history, 3) the 20th-century dilemma, 4) the atlas of contemporary grid projects, 5) projective tools for the future, and 6) goodgrid city as an open form coping with new urban issues.

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