General Theory of Urbanization 1867
General Theory of Urbanization 1867
Ildefons Cerdà
Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) & Actar, March 2018
Hardcover | 7-3/4 x 10-1/2 inches | 720 pages | English | ISBN: 978-1945150906 | $49.95
Publisher Description:
First translation into English on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the publication of the General Theory of Urbanization by Ildefons Cerdà, an essential work on urban development.
In 1867 Ildefons Cerdà published his ?Teoria general de la urbanització.? In this text, the ?science of building cities?, understood as a phenomenon, became a new discipline with a broad economic, social and cultural impact on the life of the people of the city. Coinciding with 150 years since its publication, its first translation into English is being presented along with the publishing online urbanization.org with the statistics transformed into interactive graphics and open data, with the aim of expanding the knowledge of Cerdà?s work and encouraging debate on the process of ?urbanization? in the future.dDAB Commentary: Don't let the spreads below fool you. This book has very few illustrations (less than 10), and they are ancillary to the main 700-page text, the first English translation of Ildefons Cerdà's General Theory of Urbanization, which recently celebrated its 150th anniversary. This isn't to say the project of translating and celebrating Cerdà's influential publication on the "science of making cities" did n...
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