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020			_a9781940743950
082			_aDSGN _bBUS
100			_aBusquets, Joan
245		0	_aUrban Grids: Handbook for Regular City Design
260			_a. _bHarvard University Press _c2018
300			_a656p. _c21.6 x 4.6 x 27.9 cm _rHardback
504			_aUrban 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.
650			_aCity Design
650			_aDesign
650			_aUrban Design
700			_aKeller, Michael _eDesigner
700			_aYang, Dingliang _eCo-author
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