Redesigning Gridded Cities

Hangzou: Grids from Canal to Maxi-Block

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‘Redesigning Gridded Cities’ focuses with extreme detail on four paradigmatic gridded cities, Manhattan, Chicago, Barcelona, and Hangzhou by analyzing these cities and proposing their own interventions that implicate…

SKU: 90613_4
Size: 11 x 11″ Square
Pages: 148pp
Binding: Soft bound with Flaps
Publication Date: Spring 2017
ISBN: 978-1-939621-54-2
Rights World: Available

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“It sets out to understand a city with a long history and a process of rapid recent transformation.”

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Size

11 x 11" Square

Pages

148pp

Binding

Soft bound with Flaps

Publication date

Spring 2017

ISBN

978-1-939621-54-2

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‘Redesigning Gridded Cities’ focuses with extreme detail on four paradigmatic gridded cities, Manhattan, Chicago, Barcelona, and Hangzhou by analyzing these cities and proposing their own interventions that implicate the grid in productive ways. They emphasize the value of open forms for city design, and specifically insist that the grid has the unique capacity to absorb and channel urban transformation flexibly and productively. In both historical and projective, this series of books explore the potential of the grid as a design tool to produce a multitude of urban processes and forms.
‘Hangzhou’ is the fourth case in a series, coming after ‘Manhattan, Chicago’ and ‘Barcelona’, and was conducted in the 2014-2015 academic year. It sets out to understand a city with a long history and a process of rapid recent transformation. The hypothesis of seeking to understand the city by examining the criteria of hierarchy and regularity of its urban infrastructures and transformations may help us to a different understanding of the decisions leading to the construction of the present-day city. The construction of modern Hangzhou can be seen as a laboratory of urban projects and planning strategies (the remodeling of the historic center, the extension of university and research sectors contrasting with the application of a functional grid of big streets and motorways), producing a more anonymous city, the repository of complexes of large blocks of economic activity, defining a generic city with no major defining values.

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Joan Busquets, a world-renowned urban planner and architect, is the first Martin Bucksbaum Professor in Practice of Urban Planning and Design at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

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SKU: 90613_4
Size: 11 x 11″ Square
Pages: 148pp
Binding: Soft bound with Flaps
Publication Date: Spring 2017
ISBN: 978-1-939621-54-2
Rights World: Available


Redesigning Gridded Cities

“It sets out to understand a city with a long history and a process of rapid recent transformation.”

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USA - New York
Tel: +1(646) 322-2466
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Tel: +(65) 9068-1860
Tel: +(86) 755-84556863

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