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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Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2018.
Ausgabe:1st ed. 2018.
Schlagworte:
Sociology, Urban.
Cities and towns-History.
Human geography.
ISBN:9783319764900
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • 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.

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