Urban Grids: Handbook for Regular City Design is the result of an eight-year research project undertaken at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. The book emphasizes the value of the regular city as an open form for city design, and specifically insists that the grid has the unique capacity to absorb and channel urban transformation flexibly and productively. Research into existing cities and projects is revealing new emerging conditions for the urban grid, presented here as possible paradigms for the city of the future. The work is organized into six parts: 1. The Atlas of Grid Cities; 2. Grid Projects across History; 3. The Twentieth-Century Dilemma; 4. The Emergence of New Urban Grids; 5. Projective Design Tools; 6. The Good Grid City as Open Form.

Author: Joan Busquets, Dingliang Yang, Michael Keller
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Oro Editions
Published: 03/15/2019
Pages: 680
Weight: 6.95lbs
Size: 12.00h x 8.60w x 1.80d
ISBN: 9781940743950


Award: 2020 Benjamin Franklin Award Gold Medal Winner - Professional/Technical

About the Author
Busquets, Joan: - Joan Busquets, 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.Yang, Dingliang: - Dingliang Yang is an instructor and Doctor of Design at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He is the founding principal of VARY Design.Keller, Michael: - Michael Keller is a landscape and architectural designer and a graduate of the Master in Landscape Architecture and Master of Architecture in Urban Design programs at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.