European Town Town Planning for and in the Americas and its use of the Grid Form: Cerdá and the Square

Authors

  • Fernando de Terán Troyano

Keywords:

Trazados urbanos, Historia del Urbanismo

Abstract

Cerda's penchant for the grid form in his models for cities is here said to be rooted in that adopted by Spanish military engineers and those civil engineers who were their heirs. This original impulse was then further fed by those Spanish colonial initiatives in the Americas (Square grid) he so admired and which, with their city blocks broken up by open spaces with gardens within a generative square plan grid were, in their own right, the realisation of Cerda ' s ideas on the subject before he got round to formulising them though, the author regrets, they have not proved true to their original postulates.

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Published

1999-06-26

How to Cite

Terán Troyano, F. de. (1999). European Town Town Planning for and in the Americas and its use of the Grid Form: Cerdá and the Square. Ciudad Y Territorio Estudios Territoriales, (119-120), 21–40. Retrieved from https://recyt.fecyt.es/index.php/CyTET/article/view/85560

Issue

Vol. XXXI, núm. 119-120 (1999)

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Articles

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Copyright (c) 1999 Fernando de Terán Troyano

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