Gridded Worlds: An Urban Anthology
This book is the first edited collection to bring together classic and contemporary writings on the urban grid in a single volume. The contributions showcased in this book examine the spatial histories of the grid from multiple perspectives in a variety of urban contexts. They explore the grid as bo...
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| Μορφή: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο |
| Γλώσσα: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
2018.
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| Έκδοση: | 1st ed. 2018. |
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| Διαθέσιμο Online: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- Introduction
- 1: The Origin and Spread of the Grid-Pattern Town
- 2: Genealogies of the Grid: Revisiting Stanislawski's Search for the Origin of the Grid-Pattern Town
- 3: The City Shaped: "The Grid and Politics" and "Laying Out the Grid"
- 4: Plan and Constitution-Aristotle's Hippodamus: Towards an "Ostensive" Definition of Spatial Planning
- 5: Chinese Spatial Strategies: The Grid Plan as Ideology
- 6: Military Considerations and Colonial Town Planning: France and New France in the Seventeenth Century
- 7: From Diffusionism to the Production of Space: The Lébou Pènç and the Grid in the Urban History of Senegal
- 8: Indigenous Architecture and the Spanish-American Gridplan-Plaza in Mesoamerica and the Caribbean
- 9: Gridiron Cities and Checkerboard Towns
- 10: American Cities: The Grid Plan and the Protestant Ethic
- 11: The Grid as City Plan: New York City and Laissez-Faire Planning in the Nineteenth Century
- 12: The Dark Side of the Grid: Power and Urban Design
- 13: Gridded Lives: Why Kazakhstan and Montana Are Nearly the Same Place
- 14: Ladders: Urban Implosion
- 15: Urban Grids and Urban Imaginaries: City to Cyberspace, Cyberspace to City
- Conclusion.
